Qualla: Minesto https://qualla.com/minesto en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Minesto https://qualla.com/minesto Minesto: Introduction https://qualla.com/minesto/ Picture an aeroplane wing about twelve metres across, with a turbine slung below it like a jet engine, anchored to the seabed by a forty-metre cable. Now imagine that wing, instead of flying through the air, flying through deep ocean current - tracing figure-eight loops at several times the speed of the water itself, generating electricity continuously as it goes. That is what Minesto's Dragon-class tidal kites do. The company spun out of Saab's wind department in 2007, set up a manufacturing base in Holyhead, and spent fifteen years trying to prove that an underwater kite could be a serious alternative to fixed seabed tidal turbines. The Holyhead office closed in 2025. The technology kept going.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/minesto-wp/gckx-minesto-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Minesto: How an Underwater Kite Works https://qualla.com/minesto/ A conventional tidal turbine sits on the seabed and waits for water to push past it. It works in places where tidal currents are strong, but it also stops working when currents are weak - and most ocean sites do not have the kind of constant fast flow that makes a fixed turbine e...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/minesto-wp/gckx-minesto-how-an-underwater-kite-works.mp3 0:06 2 full Minesto: The Holyhead Deep https://qualla.com/minesto/ In 2014, The Crown Estate awarded Minesto a seabed lease for a 10 MW project in the Holyhead Deep, an area of strong tidal flow off the western coast of Holy Island. By 2017, the company had submitted a scoping report for an 80 MW array, arguing that the larger scale would halve ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/minesto-wp/gckx-minesto-the-holyhead-deep.mp3 0:06 3 full Minesto: The Faroes Take the Lead https://qualla.com/minesto/ In November 2023, Minesto shipped a much bigger turbine - the 1.2 MW Dragon 12, weighing 28 tonnes with a 12-metre wingspan and a 3.5-metre rotor - from Sweden to the Faroe Islands. In January 2024, the grid connection went in and the launch-and-recovery system was tested. In Feb...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/x/minesto-wp/gckx-minesto-the-faroes-take-the-lead.mp3 0:06 4 full Minesto: Holyhead Closed, Holyhead Not Abandoned https://qualla.com/minesto/ In July 2025, Minesto closed its Welsh office in a cost-cutting reorganisation. The Holyhead assembly hall that had been the company's UK manufacturing base - fully operational since 2020 - went quiet. CEO Martin Edlund said publicly that the company remained committed to its tid...

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