Scotland’s Pentland Firth Tidal Power Surges. By Steven McKenzie, BBC, 10/12/10. “There are high hopes Caithness will benefit from projects in the Pentland Firth. Its tide is one of the fastest in the world and orca hunt along its shores for young seals. Now there are grand plans to harness the power of the fearsome tides and waves of the Pentland Firth. Seven renewable energy developers have already leased 10 seabed sites off the Caithness, Sutherland and Orkney coasts from landowner the Crown Estate. And an announcement is imminent on the company to investigate the potential for generating electricity in the firth's Inner Sound between Caithness and Stroma... But there are also doubts over exactly how much Caithness and neighboring Sutherland will benefit socially and economically. Highland Council wants Caithness and Sutherland to become a centre of excellence for engineering and marine renewable... The aspiration is a feature of the authority's Highland Wide Local Development Plan. Wick councillor Bill Fernie said the Pentland power surge could save the north coast from dark days ahead -- if first companies can overcome the challenges of working in one of the fastest tidal races in the world.”
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