Image of the day: C2C concludes trials

 
Aberdeenshire-based tidal energy developer, Current2Current (C2C), has completed the testing of its tidal energy device.

The device developed by C2C has undergone several weeks of testing off west Scotland at the Underwater Centre in Fort William, one of the partners in the project.

C2C’s omni-directional converter works on the principle of redirecting the flow vertically through a shrouded turbine.

The engine works by diverting the tidal current up through a flow path, between an inner cone and the outer structure, which is then directed through a ducted turbine before exhausting vertically out of the top of the cone.

C2C was recently backed by the Scottish Enterprise which provided it with a grant in the amount of £100,000.

The funding contributed to a £260,000 R&D feasibility project the company is undertaking to further develop its tidal technology.