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August 2011–Neptune Renewable Energy gets green light for autumn deployment of advanced tidal stream device
Neptune Renewable Energy Ltd has been given parliamentary approval for the deployment of its world-leading tidal stream power device. It has been issued with a Transport and Works Act Order following a decision by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to allow deployment of the Neptune Proteus NP1000 demonstrator and the installation of a shore bridge in the Humber.
See article.
November 2010–Neptune and Proteus Demonstrator featured on KCFM
Neptune Renewable Energy Ltd (NREL), and the successful completion of in-water testing of the Proteus Demonstrator tidal stream power generator, was the subject of a recent report on the Breakfast programme of KCFM 99.8, the commercial radio station for Hull and East Yorkshire. The news item featured an interview with Nigel Petrie, the Chairman of Neptune Renewable Energy Ltd. Listen to Report. Listen to Report.
2nd November 2010– Neptune Renewable Energy ready for commercial deployment after fullscale testing of Proteus Tidal Stream Power Generator
Neptune Renewable Energy Ltd (NREL) announces that it has successfully completed a series of rigorous in-water tests on the multi-million pound full-scale demonstrator of its world-leading Proteus NP1000 tidal stream power generator. A key landmark in the testing process was the powering-up and generation of electricity as proof of the commercial potential of the device's power curve. See article.
July 2010– Neptune and Proteus Demonstrator spotlighted on KCFM 99.8 Breakfast Programme
Neptune Renewable Energy Ltd (NREL) and the move of the Proteus Demonstrator from Wear Dock in Sunderland to Hull featured prominently in a news bulletin on this morning's KCFM 99.8 Radio Breakfast programme. The piece which was broadcast to listeners of the independent radio station across Hull and East Yorkshire included comments from Nigel Petrie, the Chairman of Neptune Renewable Energy Ltd. Listen to Report.
5th July 2010– Neptune Renewable Energy's full-scale tidal stream generator arrives in Hull
Neptune Renewable Energy Ltd (NREL) announces that the first full-scale demonstrator of its world-leading 'green-energy' Proteus tidal stream power plant, has now been transferred from Wear Dock in Sunderland and is safely moored in William Wright Dock in Hull See article.
27 November 2009 – Neptune Renewable Energy gears up for deployment of first full-scale tidal
stream power generator in the Humber
Neptune Renewable Energy Ltd (NREL) - based in North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, is counting down to the deployment of the first full-scale demonstrator of its world-leading Proteus tidal stream power plant in the Humber Estuary at Hull. See article.
March 2009 – Neptune Proteus features in regional regeneration strategy
Neptune Renewable Energy in the regional regeneration strategy. See article.
August 2008 – Neptune Renewable Energy in The Times
Neptune Renewable Energy as part of the city of Hull’s regeneration scheme. See article.
April 2008 - Neptune Proteus in The Times
The Times publishes Neptune Proteus Mark III details and the argument against tidal barrages. See article.
Spring 2008 - Experimental Programme at the University of Hull
University of Hull report on work with Neptune Renewable Energy on the Proteus tidal stream device. See article.
September 2007 - NRE contract research project at the University of Hull
NRE is employing researchers in the Marine Renewables Group at the University of Hull to carry out numerical modelling and scaled prototype testing for the Proteus project. See articles in Hull Daily Mail 11.09.07 and Yorkshire Post 14.09.2007.