The Dublin-based firm has been working with EDF on a 4 MW tidal power project, and just last week toward the first turbine assembled at a shipyard belonging to DCNS SA, a Paris-based marine engineering company, to the project site to commence a series of commissioning tests at sea prior to installation.
In a telephone interview with Bloomberg News over the weekend, Peter Corcoran, chief financial officer of OpenHydro, said his company is currently looking at developing a second project with ECF’s renewable energy unit EDF Energies Nouvelles SA.
“We are working on planning with EDF Energies Nouvelles on a potential project in French waters,” Corcoran told the news services without providing any additional details.
Bloomberg said it confirmed the second collaboration with Aurelia de Lapeyrouse, a spokeswoman for the French firm.
The current project includes the installation of four turbines off the coast of Paimpol-Brehat, northwest France. EDF anticipates that the first project, which is valued at €40 million ($57 million), will be grid connected in 2012.
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