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Tidal Sails is a Norwegian company developing and constructing energy plants generating electricity from ocean currents and tidal streams. Aluminum sail profiles attached to wires sail with the current at an angle, capturing energy and converting it into clean electricity. Linearly moving sails have great extraction efficiency, thus dramatically reducing the cost of the electricity generation. Tidal Sail’s technology may be used in different settings and is protected by several patents worldwide.

Tidal Sails was established in 2004 based on an idea by Are Børgesen, a commercial airline pilot. With his extensive background in sailing, diving, and skiing, the idea developed during a regatta, sailing with the wind from behind against the current. What if the yacht was upside down with the spinnaker (sail) under water catching the current? Lots of energy could be generated.