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4C is now TGS
We are excited to announce a significant milestone in 4C Offshore's journey. Our integration into the TGS family marks the beginning of a new era in offshore wind market intelligence.
A group of leading offshore companies including Van Oord, Bluewater and Damen have joined together to realize a unique floating tidal energy platform which will be moored near Texel in the Wadden sea and generate clean electricity from the tides. The platform is a trial for remote locations worldwide, such as islands in Indonesia, Philippines or the Pacific. It is of an innovative modular design and uses a new type of permanent mooring lines. It will be the first time that a floating tidal platform is used for electricity production into the Dutch grid. It will be operational in the first half of 2015.
The Texel platform consists of container size modules, can be assembled locally and installed without sophisticated equipment. It holds a 200 KW turbine that can power local villages, cooling facilities and provide lighting at schools which will change local economies.
This floating turbine will be the first of it's kind to generate electricity into the dutch grid. The floating tidal turbine is expected to start generating in the first quarter of 2015.
- See more at: http://www.vanoord.com/news/2014-unique-floating-tidal-energy-platform#sthash.Y9WhP2fU.dpuf - Find out more about the tidal turbine (BlueTech) here: http://www.bluewater.com/new-energy/bluetec/
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