Advantages

Tidal Sails energy converter is the most efficient solution for exploiting the majority of tidal streams, ocean currents, and large floods. Tidal Sails` power plant uses a number of submerged sails affixed to cables, which span the tidal stream at a specific angle. The sails are moved by the tidal flow, in turn driving generators that produce electricity to the grid.

Tidal Sails’ advanced power technology offers these basic key advantages compared to underwater rotary converters:

• The highly effective rectangular catchment area exposed to the tidal flow surpasses that of any

   other known solution today several times.
• The sails can span across any depth, as only the station moorings need to be fixed near shore.
• Linearly moving sails are easier to optimize, as the flow is constant along the entire profile.
• The entire system is easy to manufacture, install, and service.

These key features are rooted in the basic principles of the new technology and based on the underlying physics. Due to its overall simplicity and significant energy efficiency combined with unrivalled cost advantages, sails exceed all other proposed solutions for capturing tidal stream energy. The power plants will be fully submerged installations, with no surface elements, and will be constructed in a modular fashion by combining well known and readily available components.