Last week the Channel island's legislators, the States of Alderney, granted developers Alderney Renewable Energy (ARE) an exclusive 65-year licence to develop tidal power on the island.

It came before today's announcement from Irish tidal power firm OpenHydro that it has acquired a 20% stake in ARE, which it said could result in up to 3,000 of its turbines being deployed in the island's waters.

The tidal resource around Alderney is estimated at 3GW - the equivalent of three nuclear power stations. However, the initial phase of the OpenHydro project will be 284MW in size, which is still very large for a tidal power project.

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Posted by boyang at November 20, 2008 6:39 AM