SIEMENS TECHNOLOGY IN WORLD’S FIRST COMMUNITY TIDAL DEVELOPMENT
Siemens is supplying specialised gear and control technology to growing UK tidal power generation company Nova Innovation, for the world’s first community tidal power project. Siemens Industry’s Mechanical Drives has supplied a planetary unit plus IE2 electric motor, along with inverter drive and control system through Siemens specialist technology partner HMK. The Siemens technology features in the world’s first community-owned tidal power project, based in the Bluemull Sound in Shetland, between the islands of Yell and Unst, the two most northerly inhabited islands in the UK. It is