Nice details chaps12 Sep 2016 10:30
https://www.ft.com/content/d197308a-7826-11e6-97ae-647294649b28
If all goes well, they will be sending electricity within weeks to a new power conversion unit on the shore of the Pentland Firth at Ness of Quoys from where it can be sold to the grid.
“It is possible to consider the first sparks will come in late October,” Mr Cornelius said, adding that a second batch of 4 turbines will follow immediately.
The second stage will much cheaper and will require less public investment and the third should need none at all, according to Atlantis, which in April announced a deal with Equitix under which the infrastructure investor plans to put more than £100m into Scottish tidal power over the next two years.
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Australia-based Atlantis, which is listed on the London’s Stock Exchange’s Aim market, plans to spend nearly £500m in tidal power in Scotland over the next two years.