SCOTTISH FIRM WINS £4 M. TIDAL ENERGY CONTRACT
23 August 2010
Fife-based Burntisland Fabrictions (BiFab) has won a series of contracts to build ScottishPower’s first prototype device to be used for the 10MW tidal energy project, in the Sound of Islay. It intends to tender contracts in 2 years’ time for manufacture of the projects’ 10 1mw turbines. Scottish power has also been given a licence to develop a 95MW project in the Pentland Firth. According to a government report the currents of the Firth could eventually generate up to 4GW of electricity, more than enough to supply Glasgow and Edinburgh.
More than 7% of the world’s tidal energy resource is thought to be in Scottish waters, and the Scottish government has a target of generating 2GW (2,000MW) of electricity from tidal and wave power by 2020.
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