Rolls-Royce Talking to Developers, Utilities About Tidal Farms
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Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, the world’s second-largest aircraft engine maker, said it’s in talks with project developers and utilities to install tidal energy turbines in Scottish and Irish waters.
Rolls-Royce, which owns the ocean turbine maker Tidal Generation Ltd., is testing a 500-kilowatt machine at the European Marine Energy Center in Orkney, Robert Stevenson, vice president of Power Ventures at Rolls-Royce, said today by phone.