{"id":3292,"date":"2014-12-20T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2014-12-20T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T13:25:13","slug":"green-light-for-worlds-largest-planned-tidal-energy-project-in-scotland-environment-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"Green light for world\u2019s largest planned tidal energy project in Scotland | Environment | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green light for world\u2019s largest planned tidal energy project in Scotland | Environment | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Construction of the largest planned tidal energy project in the world is expected to begin off the Scottish coast next month, developers have announced.<\/p>\n

Atlantis, majority owner of the MeyGen project, said it had finalised all of the conditions required to initiate its first drawdown from financiers The Crown Estate and Scottish Enterprise.<\/p>\n

The project has the potential to power nearly 175,000 homes through a network of 269 turbines on the seabed at Ness of Quoys in Caithness, north-east\u00a0Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s share price dipped on Friday but Atlantis said it \u201cknows of no trading or operational reason to warrant this change\u201d, particularly given the good progress it is making on MeyGen.<\/p>\n

In an announcement to investors, Atlantis said: \u201cThe major construction and supply contractors to this iconic project have commenced design, engineering and procurement works in readiness for commencement of onshore construction at the project site in Caithness in January 2015.<\/p>\n

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Green light for world\u2019s largest planned tidal energy project in Scotland | Environment | The Guardian. Construction of the largest planned tidal energy project in the world is expected to begin off the Scottish coast next month, developers have announced. Atlantis, majority owner of the MeyGen project, said it had finalised all of the conditions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2029,706,2028],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-meygen-project","tag-scotland","tag-tidal-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}