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Atlantis Resources yesterday said it was “delighted” with the progress at its groundbreaking Meygen tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth.

The renewable energy group, which has been diversifying its skills base and geographic footprint, said it expected to be generating at full output from the end of the third quarter and for its turbine suppliers to fully hand over the devices “shortly thereafter”.

Publishing an operational update for Phase 1A of the Meygen project, Atlantis said the three Andritz Hydro Hammerfest (AHH) turbines were recovered earlier this year following an initial period of operations to enable the manufacturer to implement “system enhancements”.

Two of the devices have been successfully reinstalled and reconnected, and have recommenced power generation to the grid. The third AHH turbine is due to be reinstalled next month, together with an Atlantis AR1500 turbine.

The latter unit was also retrieved in the spring to assess the effects of a pro-

0 Atlantis Resources is headed by chief executive Tim Cornelius

TIM CORNELIUS, CEO longed grid connection outage, caused by damage to part oftheonshorepowerdistribution network near the Meygen site. The cable damage has since been repaired and the site’s grid export capacity has been restored, Atlantis added.

It is expected that Meygen Phase 1A will be “operating autonomously” at full sixmegawatt capacity by the end ofthethirdquarterofthisyear.

Atlantis Resources’ chief executive Tim Cornelius said: “We are delighted that we have conducted another successful installation campaign and that we will soon have the array operating autonomously, generating predictable revenue.

“Both turbines have already operatedatorclosetofullpower since redeployment. Prior to retrieval of the turbines in the spring we had already achieved significant autonomous operation at full output and the power performance of both turbine types showed improvements over the contractual output guarantees.”

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“We are delighted that we have conducted another successful installation campaign and will soon have the array operating autonomously.”