Sustainable Marine Energy to connect tidal system to grid within months

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Orkney installation aims to prove the commercial viability for community scale arrays

Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) has announced plans connect its first PLAT-O tidal energy system to the grid in a matter of months, following a successful £4.5m funding round. The marine engineering...

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