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Acta Marine set for tidal installation

By: Lewis Holdsworth 15/06/2015 Acta Marine

General Tidal

The Coastal Chariot will soon install the floating BlueTec platform, south of the island of Texel in The Netherlands. This platform holds tidal turbines beneath the sea surface.

Its purpose is to demonstrate how clean electricity can be supplied to remote locations worldwide.

This concept is subject for further research and development for designing higher capacity platforms in large farms, such as the current Offshore Wind Farms. Acta Marine has coincided the installation process with Van Oord Offshore. Early June, the Coastal Chariot will tow and hook-up the platform. The DP1 Ultra Shallow Draft Multipurpose Support Vessel will then attach it to the seabed by using four Stevpris anchors.

On the 9th of April the Mayor of Texel formally named the first BlueTEC Tidal Energy platform ‘BlueTEC Texel’. The floating platform will – after the installation – be supplying clean electricity to the Dutch grid. It serves as a demonstration platform, delivering electricity to remote locations worldwide, such as islands in Indonesia, Philippines and the Pacific.

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Acta Marine set for tidal installation

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