Crown estate and Scottish government name 10 wave and tide power installations around Orkney islands and Pentland Firth Interactive: Wave and tidal technologies. The heavy Atlantic swell and some of the world's strongest tides. are to be harnessed by a breakthrough scheme to generate clean marine energy off northern Scotland, with predictions it will rival the output of a nuclear power station. The crown estate and Scottish government today unveiled a £4bn project to build 10 wave and tidal power sites. around the Orkney islands and the Pentland Firth, with the potential to power up to 750,000 homes. The devices deployed will include the Pelamis "sea snake" , which uses the undulations of the sea surface to generate power, and the SeaGen tidal machine. , which looks like an underwater wind turbine. In total, the machines will be able to produce up to 1.2GW of "green" energy, more than Dungeness B nuclear station in Kent. The crown estate, which owns all the UK's seabed out to 12
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