Competitive asset

Relevant priorities to ensure lean production

The abundance of different tidal turbine concepts shows that the sea has not yet “arbitrated” between the better and poorer solutions. The technological evidence will be judged based solely on the economic factor, which is the cost per kWh produced, while integrating both investment factors and exploitation costs. The “survivability” and “maintainability” of these machines in a hostile submarine environment will be major factors, together with the related variables of environmental neutrality and social incidence (conflicts of use, employment opportunities, acceptation etc.). Thus today the state of the art reveals among these projects: the first breakages, technological dead ends, abandoned projects, lack of referencing etc., and points to obvious economic distractions.

The optimisation of the hydrodynamic power law enabled SABELLA to anchor its solution on the fundamental values of reliability, robustness and necessary technological precision. This gives SABELLA a competitive edge and a high economic performance, already acknowledged on an international scale.

NEWS

  • SABELLA is to take part in ICOE 2010 in Bilbao (Spain) in October 2010.
  • "Sabella D03" is temporarily on show at the ADEME Innovation Forum at the Cité des Sciences, Vilette - Paris on 23 June 2010.
  • SABELLA ENERGIE INC. was created in January 2010 in Canada to implement the development of tidal turbine technologies on the American continents.
  • SABELLA SAS responded to the AMI tender launched by ADEME to construct its demonstrator "D10". Response due in June 2010.

REFERENCES

  • SABELLA SAS received the award “Durable – ACTINE STRATEGIES” at INNOVACT 2009 in Reims.
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