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Ottawa is being asked for additional support for the existing $1.5 billion dollar ecoEnergy program, which is expected to run out of money by 2009. The program offers a 1-cent-per-kilowatt-hour incentive for those building alternative energy such as green hydro, wind, geothermal, tidal or biomass projects.
“The world’s largest tidal turbine, weighing 1000 tonnes, has been installed in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough. The tidal turbine is rated at 1.2 megawatts, which is enough to power a thousand local homes. It was built by Marine Current Turbines, and it will be the first commercial tidal turbine to produce energy, when it begins operation later this year.”
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The world’s first commercial-scale tidal power turbine has supplied the British grid with its first surge of tidal electricity, Marine Current Turbines (MCT) said on Thursday.