Marine Current Turbines has won the Renewable Energy Association’s Developer of the Year Award with its successful design, deployment and operation of its 1.2MW SeaGen tidal current energy system. This is the second major award that Marine Current Turbines has received in this year.  In February, the company won the 2009 Rosenblatt New Energy Rising Star award.

Commenting on the award, Martin Wright, Managing Director of Marine Current Turbines said:  "This award, voted by the UK renewables industry, recognises the efforts and commitment of our engineering and project development teams. The development and deployment of SeaGen has been challenging and we have still have work to do in order to deploy our technology on a commercial basis but the REA Award underlines the belief, shared across the industry, that tidal energy can and will make a meaningful contribution to the UK energy market in the coming years."