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MARINE CURRENT TURBINES - GOOD NEWS FOR LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH?

 Proposal for a Marine Current Turbine situated off Foreland Point in
 Lynmouth Bay

The world's potential marine current resource is enormous, and it could provide a sizeable proportion of the world's energy needs if developed on a large scale.

Marine Current Energy
Background

Tidal flows in the oceans are regular, predictable movements of huge volumes of water. Where these flows are constricted by islands and coastal features, fast currents can be generated which can be exploited economically. Marine current technology extracts the kinetic energy from the moving water, and differs from tidal barrages which rely on the rise and fall of the tide.

Possible effects on Lynton and Lynmouth

Visual impact - this is one of the most beautiful and unspoilt coastlines in the country.

Shipping - how will this affect small fishing and sailing vessels?

Marine life - What sort of impact will this have on the marine life of the Bristol Channel?

  for further information go to
www.marineturbines.com


TIDAL TURBINE PROJECT SET FOR NEXT STAGE 22 April 2004

  The pioneering inventors of an alternative energy project off the coast of Lynmouth have secured a multi-million pound deal to take the project to its next stage. Hampshire-based Marine Current Turbines launched an offshore tidal energy turbine off Foreland Point last summer - but it is not yet known if the second project will take place at Lynmouth. The initial �3.4 million Seaflow project produced the world's first 300kw offshore tidal turbine, which would produce enough electricity to supply about 200 households.

It was hailed as a success by the company which said the Lynmouth turbine performed 25% better than expected. An extra �3 million funding package was secured this month by commercial law firm Bond Pearce allowing Marine Current Turbines to develop the next stage of the project.   Costing a total of �6 million, the SeaGen turbine would be a one megawatt twin rotor machine connected to the national grid.

Investors in the new project include Electricite de France, Guernsey Electricity and BankInvest, a major Danish venture capital firm.   Marine Current Turbines technical director Peter Fraenkel said: "A decision has yet to be made about whether the second stage would be at Lynmouth. We should know within a couple of months. Even if we do not do the next stage at Lynmouth, we may do something more there in the future." He added that the first turbine would still continue to operate at Lynmouth until the end of next year.

North Devon district councillor John Travis said: "It has been very important for Lynton and Lynmouth.   "We have always led the way in water power technology, right back to the time of the hydro electric power scheme on the River Lyn which opened in 1890 - and with the cliff railway.  "In a sense this has maintained our involvement in water power technology. "People in Lynton and Lynmouth have a sense of being involved in something important. "I certainly hope they will continue to do the second phase of the development here."

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