Green-Tide Turbines (G-TT) has appointed Cambridge Consultants to help with the development of its tidal stream turbines.
Marine power start-up Green-Tide said its turbine technology can achieve capital cost savings relative to competing technologies.
Cambridge Consultants will carry out G-TT’s Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) analysis design.
“As a start-up company operating in a market that is still in its infancy, selecting our technology partners was a detailed process,” said Michael Evans, CEO Green-Tide Turbines.
According Craig Webster, head of Cleantech at Cambridge Consultants “It is important that start-ups have access to this level of technology. All too often, we find that financial restrictions coupled with a need to show hardware to investors encourages them to short circuit this process.”
“They are now a fully integrated member of our development team,” said Evans.
By 2020 the UK Government has committed to 20% of its total energy requirements coming from renewable sources.
Of this, it is estimated that only 3% will be from a combination of tidal and wave devices, but G-TT believe marine renewables have the potential of providing 15 – 20% of the UK’s energy needs if deployed correctly.