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Article: NS Power and OpenHydro Successfully Deploy in-Stream Tidal Turbine in the Bay of Fundy.
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- PR Newswire Europe
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- November 12, 2009
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HALIFAX and PARRSBORO, Canada, November 12 /PRNewswire/ -- NS Power and its tidal technology partner OpenHydro have successfully deployed the first commercial scale in-stream tidal turbine in the Bay of Fundy today. The one-megawatt commercial scale turbine reached the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) deployment site, in the Minas Passage, yesterday afternoon and began preparations for deployment. The turbine was fully deployed just before 2:00 today and is now operational, rotating with the tides, collecting data, and producing energy.
"Today begins a very important period of testing that we believe will demonstrate that tidal energy can be ...