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Add on https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/orkney-land-works-begin-in-30m-electricity-cable-replacement-scheme-in-pentland-firth-210087/ Currents of up to 5 metres per second (11 mph) make the Pentland Firth potentially one of the best sites in the world for tidal power.[9] This has taken on a political dimension. The SNP Energy Review of July 2006 claimed that the Firth could produce "10 to 20 GW of synchronous electricity"[10] and First Minister Alex Salmond claimed that the Pentland Firth could be "the Saudi Arabia of tidal power"[11] with an output of "20 gigawatts and more than that".[11][12] In July 2013 Dr Thomas Ad**** of Oxford University stated that the Firth "is almost certainly the best site for tidal stream power in the world"[13] although a peer-reviewed study he led suggested that the maximum potential of the Firth was 1.9 GW of tidal power, with 1 GW being a more realistic figure.[9]
In October 2008 tidal power developer Atlantis Resources Corporation (ARC) announced it was considering a site near the Castle of Mey for a computer data centre that would be powered by a tidal scheme in the Firth.[14] In October 2010 MeyGen, a consortium of ARC, Morgan Stanley and International Power, received operational lease from the Crown Estate to a 400 MW project for 25 years.[15] Consent was granted in September 2013 for MeyGen to build a 9 MW demonstration project of six AR1000 turbines commissioning in 2015[16] with 86 MW planned for phase 1 by 2020. The second phase would install up to 400 turbines generating 398 MW.[17]
MeyGen completed the longest-ever run of continuous tidal electricity generation in 2019 with 25 GWh produced, enough to power nearly 4,000 homes.[18]
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