The turbine was towed to the site by Green Marine’s vessel Green Isle and was connected to the mooring as part of site commissioning and testing.
Claimed to the world's largest of its kind, the tidal turbine represents the company's first commercial scale machine and follows completion of 12 years of detailed and incremental engineering research and development program.
Scotrenewables CEO Andrew Scott said: “We see it as a real feather in our cap that we’ve managed to execute a construction and installation program for a 2MW turbine using only low cost vessels.
“This will be a short installation but we’ll be seeking to further emphasise clear benefits of our approach in the operational phase where much of the standard maintenance can be carried out with simple crew transfer vessels, and validate a game-changing reduction in cost of energy for the tidal sector.”
Scott earlier said that the testing aims to assess more of the clear engineering and cost advantages of the technology for the commercial tidal sector.
The 550t turbine has earlier unveiled at Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries' (H&W) shipyard in Belfast for preliminary tow trials.
Designed to reduce the whole lifecycle cost of electricity production from tidal energy, the turbine can be deployed with a range of anchoring systems depending on seabed types.
Image: A Scotrenewables’ SR2000 being deployed at EMEC tidal test site. Photo: courtesy of Scotrenewables.
