{"id":101145,"date":"2023-09-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/?p=101145"},"modified":"2024-02-19T21:42:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T02:12:05","slug":"mowt-for-floating-tidal-turbines","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/mowt-for-floating-tidal-turbines\/","title":{"rendered":"MOWT Unveils Cutting-Edge Floating Tidal Turbine Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspenet, September 30, 2023.<\/p>\n\n<p>Rivtide Power, a company specializing in renewables, is on the verge of transforming hydroelectric power generation. This startup has a turbine technology called MOWT (Mass of Water Turbine) that focuses on harnessing the energy available in slow-flowing waters, whether in rivers, estuaries or ocean currents.<\/p>\n\n<p>The company is not limited to just having an innovative idea, as they have already presented a prototype of this turbine in 2021. After achieving encouraging results with its Mark 1 system, the company is working on the Mark 2 system, which will be tested off the Scottish coast in collaboration with the SMART:SCOTLAND project. Additionally, this project has the financial backing of Scottish Enterprise, which has provided Rivtide Power with <strong>funding of approximately \u20ac116,000<\/strong> .<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MOWT technology for floating turbines: What does it consist of?<\/h2>\n\n<p>The MOWT is based on a hydrokinetic turbine that <strong>produces electricity from the movement of water<\/strong> . Its design includes a system of conveyor belts equipped with paddles that are submerged in the water, altering its flow. When the liquid propels the ribbons, they rotate and activate a generator responsible for generating electricity.<\/p>\n\n<p>This technology has been specially designed to efficiently extract energy from waters with relatively low flow speeds, less than 2 meters per second. Its peculiarity is that, instead of focusing on the speed of the water, the MOWT takes advantage of the mass or volume of the water for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/new-vertical-floating-wind-turbines\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"94464\">energy generation<\/a><\/strong> . This feature significantly expands the implementation possibilities compared to conventional hydrokinetic turbines.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MOWT Features<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Versatility in water flow:<\/strong> Specifically designed to work effectively in slow-moving waters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Scalable:<\/strong> It can be adapted to produce from small amounts of kilowatts to several megawatts for connection to the electrical grid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Self-installation capacity:<\/strong> Thanks to its adjustable flotation system, it can be self-installed, either floating on the surface or submerged in water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Friendly to marine life:<\/strong> By rotating at the same rate as the surrounding water, it poses no threat to fish and marine mammals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Wide deployment possibilities:<\/strong> Its ability to adapt to slow-flowing waters makes it suitable for a variety of applications, offering greater deployment opportunities compared to other turbines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The future of renewable energy looks promising with innovations like that of Rivtide Power. With the potential to change the way we harness energy from our waters, MOWT is undoubtedly a technology that deserves our attention.<\/p>\n\n<p>Source and photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/ecoinventos.com\/mowt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ecoinventos.com\/mowt\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspenet, September 30, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Rivtide Power, a company specializing in renewable energy, is on the verge of transforming hydroelectric power generation. This startup has a technology called MOWT, which focuses on harnessing the energy available in slow-flowing waters, whether in rivers, estuaries or ocean currents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8403,"featured_media":101112,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13044],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-101145","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-new-energies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/101145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/101145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=101145"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=101145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}