Thirty Eight!

The Crown Estate has just announced that 38 companies and consortia have been invited to tender for leases in the Pentland Firth lease round.

Obviously there's no public information on who the 38 are, but it would be interesting to know.

Additions to tidal list

Following a couple of interesting recent conferences, we've added some new companies to the list of tidal device developers on the Redfield website links page.

They are:

• C-Energy - EcoFys led Wave Rotor (workable in tidal setting too)


• Cetus Energy - Australian-based horizontal axis bladed turbine


• Firth Tidal Energy - no website available yet (although the link is there)


• Hydro Mine - high energy tidal turbine concept


• Minesto - developing new "Deep Green" tidal plant concept


• Verderg - marine engineering firm with energy capture technology applicable to tidal fences

And we've updated the links for Hydro-Gen and Tidalstream too.