{"id":121821,"date":"2021-04-22T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T21:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/worlds-most-powerful-tidal-turbine-gears-up-for-operation"},"modified":"2021-04-22T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T21:25:04","slug":"worlds-most-powerful-tidal-turbine-gears-up-for-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/worlds-most-powerful-tidal-turbine-gears-up-for-operation","title":{"rendered":"\u2018World\u2019s most powerful tidal turbine\u2019 gears up for operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-most-powerful-tidal-turbine-gears-up-for-operation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tidal turbine weighing 680 metric tons and dubbed \u201cthe world\u2019s most powerful\u201d has been launched from the Port of Dundee in Scotland, marking another significant step forward in the development of the U.K.\u2019s marine energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement Thursday, Scottish firm Orbital Marine Power said its 2 megawatt (MW) turbine, the Orbital O2, would now be towed to the Orkney Islands, an archipelago north of mainland Scotland, for commissioning.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is for the turbine to then be connected to the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre, where it will become operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tidal turbine weighing 680 metric tons and dubbed \u201cthe world\u2019s most powerful\u201d has been launched from the Port of Dundee in Scotland, marking another significant step forward in the development of the U.K.\u2019s marine energy sector. In an announcement Thursday, Scottish firm Orbital Marine Power said its 2 megawatt (MW) turbine, the Orbital O2, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}