Today's Bangor Daily News includes an article about Halcyon Marine Hydroelectric's plans to install a tidal power project in Cobscook Bay.
Ramez Atiya, founder of Halcyon, has developed invented a new way to build tidal hydropower systems at a much lower cost. Atiya has a patent on his "parallel cycle" “tidal wing. His prototype would be a concrete structure 400 meters long, 15' above mean water level, housing 4 generators. In a new refinement of the Passamaquoddy Power Project's technology, Halcyon's approach would combine power generation on the flood and ebb tides with pumping. Atiya claims that the tides within the cove will rise and fall just as if the tidal wing were not there.
Where does Halycon want to build? First, a demonstration project at Half Moon Cove.
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