Nova Innovation

Since then, they have developed and tested a 100 kW seabed mounded two-bladed horizontal-axis tidal stream turbine, and plan to scale this up in future.

In November 2023, the company announced it had been awarded Horizon Europe funding to develop a 4 MW array with 16 turbines at the EMEC Fall of Warness tidal test site.

[3] In June 2024, Nova announced a joint venture with RSK called AquaGen365, to design, build, and install floating solar platforms.

[7][8][9] In April 2014, Nova installed a 30 kW turbine in the Bluemull Sound, in partnership with the North Yell Development Council, making it the "world's first community-owned tidal power generator".

[14] After deploying the Nova 30, the company developed plans for an array of five turbines in the Bluemull Sound, to the northeast of Cullivoe Harbour.

[20][21][23] Nova incorporated Tesla batteries alongside the array in 2018, to help even out the variation in power over the six-hour tidal cycle.

The RE50 turbine did not yaw, and was therefore deployed facing into the ebb current minimising the impact of tower shadow and maximising power generation.

[30][31] Nova secured £1.2m from the Welsh Government in 2020 to develop a 0.5 MW tidal stream array, to be located in the waters between Ynys Enlli and the Llŷn Peninsula.

In February 2021, Crown Estate Scotland granted Nova an option agreement to develop a 3 MW array in the Sound of Islay.

The name Òran na Mara is Gaelic for "song of the sea", and the project would help power the famous distilleries on Islay.

[36][37] In February 2022, Crown Estate Scotland granted Nova another option agreement, this time for a 15 MW array in Yell Sound in Shetland.

[17] In September 2024, Nova was awarded three Contracts for Difference in allocation round 6, to supply a total of 6 MW of electricity at £172/MWh for their SEASTAR and OCEANSTAR projects.