Now, it’s tidal power

Vineyard Sound is one of eight sites across the country that a Washington, D.C., company wants to reserve as a possible future home for a tidal energy project.

Oceana Energy Co. this spring submitted applications for preliminary permits to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on seven tidal energy proposals, including the Cape and Islands Tidal Energy Hydroelectric Project.

The company already has received a preliminary permit for a tidal energy project in San Francisco Bay.

”We have organized to investigate the waters around the coastline of the United States to try to determine where the best collectable ocean energy exists,” Daniel Power, the president of Oceana, said in an interview yesterday.

Cape Cod Times