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A consortium, led by Nova Innovation in collaboration with 11 other organizations including ¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾«Æ·, has led a European project that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve tidal turbine performance and accelerate the commercialisation and scale of tidal energy.
The €5 million ELEMENT project will incorporate state-of-the-art AI technology from wind energy into tidal turbines to deliver an adaptive control system that improves turbine performance, slashing the lifetime cost of energy by 17% and driving the tidal energy sector to commercial reality.
The control technology will be demonstrated on a floating tidal device in the Étel estuary in Brittany, France and on a seabed-mounted Nova M100 turbine in the Shetland Tidal Array in Scotland. With the climate challenge, ¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾Ã¾«Æ· is looking to advance the energy transition by taking on projects like ELEMENT that allows us to share our expertise as well as unlock future solutions that will provide a more sustainable energy mix.

Simon Forrest, Chief Executive Officer of Nova Innovation