GE’s Power Conversion business has been a long time partner with SIMEC Atlantis Energy in building the tidal turbine system MayGen in Scotland, which should end up as a 398 MW generating system. Today it is just 6 MW, and it has slightly adjusted the next phase which is for SIMEC to provide two further turbines, which have now been upgraded from the 1.5 MW AR 1500s planned originally, to two AR2000, which means an additional 4 MW will be released. These turbines have underwater rotor diameters of between 20 and 24 meters which offers a 2MW output when moving at 3.05 meters per second. It is designed to be the backbone of the entire tidal system eventually. The turbine…