潮流発電の研究開発の現状と課題(<特集>海洋エネルギー)

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Some of the recent international and domestic projects on tidal current power generation are briefly introduced. Some tidal power devices have been developed for the practical use of the electric power after the demonstration tests at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland. Two tidal farm projects of UK were announced to get the financial support from the European Commission in December 2012. They are thought as the first commercial utilization of the tidal current power. The Uldolmok pilot tidal current power plant of Korea is also same phase as UK projects after three years measurement and operation since 2009. Next, recent information about tidal current power generation of Japan is introduced. The support and expectation for the renewable energy is largely increasing after the damage of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in 2011. Some tidal current power projects were newly adopted as the feasibility and demonstration experiment projects by the NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). Finally, the tasks toward practical use of the tidal current power generation are discussed.
2013-03-20