Thursday 8 September 2011

SHIHWA LAKE : the new tidal turbine electricity generating station supercedes the Rance

Thursday, September 8th 2011

SEOUL - (South Korea) - 08/09/2011 - 3B Conseils-MRE - 

Original Article by  Francis Rousseau translated and editted by Christopher Longmore.




According to the Korean press agency Yonhap, after 7 years work the tidal turbine electricity generator was inaugurated on August 29th by the Président of the Republic of South Korea  LeeMyung-bak. It is slightly more powerful than the Rance barrage system in Brittany (France) operated by EDF that was the first in the world and entered into service in 1967 with a capacity of  240 MW. The Lake Shihwa plant with its 254MW deprives Rance of  the pole position that it has held for 45 years!


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