{"id":18535,"date":"2011-03-22T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=18535"},"modified":"2011-03-22T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:00:36","slug":"scotland-plans-largest-underwater-tidal-turbine-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/scotland-plans-largest-underwater-tidal-turbine-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Plans World&#039;s Largest Underwater Tidal Turbine Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tidal-turbine.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18536\" title=\"tidal-turbine\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tidal-turbine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Iberdrola subsidiary\u00a0ScottishPower Renewables plans to install a tidal power project between two islands, Islay and Jura, in the inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. The expected power output of the \u00a340million project will be 10 MW,\u00a0 enough to power twice the number of homes on nearby Islay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Iberdrola had invested $8 billion in the US, and birthed a US subsidiary,\u00a0Iberdrola USA in 2008 on high hopes of a big new US wind market, but now with the change in fickle America \u2013 we voted in representatives to say climate change simply doesn\u2019t exist \u2013 it is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/12\/31\/foreign-windpower-giant-iberdrola-taps-saudi-arabia-of-wind-because-we-cant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulling back from wind farm development in the US.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it pulled out of the US, Iberdrola cited the changing regulatory environment here (which is a polite way of describing the Tea Party takeover.)<\/p>\n<p>More: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2011\/03\/17\/wind-giant-iberdrola-worlds-biggest-tidal-scottishpower-renewables\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wind Giant Iberdrola Births Underwater Tidal Turbine Market off Scotland\u2019s Coast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iberdrola subsidiary ScottishPower Renewables plans to install a tidal power project between two islands, Islay and Jura, in the inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. 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