{"id":285216,"date":"2010-02-05T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-6269864571603964627"},"modified":"2010-02-05T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T01:01:36","slug":"norways-hammerfest-strom-gets-uk-tidal-power-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/285216","title":{"rendered":"Norway&#8217;s Hammerfest Strom gets UK tidal power grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters has a report on a small <a href=\"http:\/\/peakenergy.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/tapping-source-power-of-oceans.html\">tidal power<\/a> development in the UK &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/oilRpt\/idINLDE61116W20100202\">Norway&#8217;s Hammerfest Strom gets UK tidal power grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hammerfest Strom UK Ltd. has received 3.9 million pounds ($6.2 million) from Britain&#8217;s Carbon Trust to build and test a one-megawatt (MW) tidal power generator off the Scottish island of Orkney, the company said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The British arm of Norwegian tidal power developer Hammerfest Strom AS expects the tidal turbine to be fully operational by 2011.<\/p>\n<p>After testing the new HS1000 turbine, the company will work with ScottishPower Renewables (IBE.MC: Quote, Profile, Research) to integrate it into a 10-MW tidal power farm in the Sound of Islay by 2012. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lithuania2008\/2669858288\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3219\/2669858288_30252c0aa7.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-6269864571603964627?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Gwn0zobfNiaMcXNVW8QQF7W3cuQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Gwn0zobfNiaMcXNVW8QQF7W3cuQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Gwn0zobfNiaMcXNVW8QQF7W3cuQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Gwn0zobfNiaMcXNVW8QQF7W3cuQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters has a report on a small tidal power development in the UK &#8211; Norway&#8217;s Hammerfest Strom gets UK tidal power grant. Hammerfest Strom UK Ltd. has received 3.9 million pounds ($6.2 million) from Britain&#8217;s Carbon Trust to build and test a one-megawatt (MW) tidal power generator off the Scottish island of Orkney, the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}