Tidal power starts in U.S.
NZPA-AFP Annapolis Royal The first tide-water electricity generating station in North America has just started up in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. Tides in the mouth of the Annapolis River estuary will generate 20 megawatts of electricity. The Bay of Fundy has unusually high tides up to 22 metres. The bay is between the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and the United States state of Maine. The generating station was delayed by a ninemonth electricians’ strike in
1983 and finally cost $78.2 million. There is a scheme that might be carried out some day to harness the bay’s entire tide with a dam about 100 km long and 106 giant turbines. The new generating station is near where -> Samuel Champlain set up ' the first water mill in North America and founded Port 1 Royal, the first permanent French settlement in Canada. A tide-water generation ’ plant has been functioning in France for about 20 years.
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