The OpenHydro partnership concerns the installation of four to ten tidal turbines with a total capacity of between 2-4 MW at Paimpol-Bréhat (Cà´tes d’Armor), France.

"OpenHydro’s philosophy is a single turbine design that can be used across all of our sites," said James Ives, CEO of OpenHydro, in a recent interview with the trade magazine Tidal Today.

OpenHydro’s Open-Centre turbine in Orkney, Scotland. The tidal energy developer said on Friday it plans to raise €55 million as it gears up to commercialise its technology.

OpenHydro ring-shaped turbine: the new prince of tides In a particularly ferocious stretch of Canada’s Bay of Fundy, 30 metres underwater, OpenHydro’s distinctive, ring-shaped, one-megawatt (MW) ...

3. Titanic. The 16-meter-diameter OpenHydro turbine was towed out to sea on January 20 and deployed by the OpenHydro barge on EDF’s Paimpol-Bréhat tidal farm site in France. Courtesy: DCNS ...

OpenHydro designed and developed the deployment method, which included lowering the 1 MW turbine onto the ocean floor from a barge. The turbine now rests on a subsea gravity base designed by ...

OpenHydro, the Irish developer of marine turbines to generate energy from tidal waves, has completed a €40m fundraising which is understood to value the company at €140m.

IRISH GREEN energy company Openhydro’s efforts to develop a system to generate electricity from tidal power met a setback recently when a prototype of its turbine was damaged during tests. The ...

OpenHydro and EDF plan to connect the two turbines to the grid from 2015 to test the long-term reliability of the technology in real sea conditions, Dublin-based OpenHydro said today in an e ...

THE NORTH Louth-based tidal technology company, OpenHydro, has been given the Technology of the Year prize at the Engineers Ireland excellence awards for their open-centre tidal turbine. The prize ...

OpenHydro Group Ltd., majority owned by French engineering company DCNS SA, agreed to work with Alderney Renewable Energy Ltd. to develop a 600 million-euro ($833 million) tidal-power plant.

23 April 2009 22:00 GMT Updated 25 November 2012 9:46 GMT ByBenjamin Romano ...