Hydroquest tidal turbines

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An interesting presentation of Hydroquest projects with its river turbines: http://www.hydro21.org/colloque/present ... oquest.pdf

About ten pages dedicated to the project of 39 tidal turbines downstream of the Génissiat dam on the Rhone.
39 in 13 clusters of 3 tidal turbines.

General characteristics of the pilot farm:
39 HydroQuest River turbines (P. unit 40kW and 80kW)
Rated power: 2.04 MW
Annual output of 6 MWh (i.e. annual consumption of approximately 700
inhabitants and the equivalent of 2000 tonnes of CO2 emissions avoided per year)

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Bordeaux injects its first tidal electrons into the network

Published 02 / 03 / 2018 lemarin.fr

The estuarine tidal stream has become a very tangible reality. Thursday, March 1, in Bordeaux, the Seeneoh site was inaugurated and the first tidal turbine of its kind, produced by the company Hydroquest, was put into service.


The hydroquest bidirectional vertical axis tidal turbine was put into service when the Seeneoh site was inaugurated on March 1. (Photo: Loïc Fabrègues)

http://www.lemarin.fr/secteurs-activite ... ns-dans-le



The floating platform of Bilbao tidal turbines

https://rue89bordeaux.com/2017/06/hydro ... ordeaux/#1