First WestCoast utilities to join up include Puget Sound Energy, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Seattle City Light, and Xcel Energy, and nope, none of those overlap with PowerMeter's first enlistees.
If the next stage of testing goes according to plan, Mortimer says that work will soon begin on a fleet of the turbines -- manufactured by Andritz Hydro Hammerfest -- and will be installed at another site in the Sound of Islay off the westcoast of Scotland.
Jonathan Crawley from WestCoast Energy stressed that the TAN8 principles were "sound", however he felt the need for clearer and more realistic renewable targets.