Foundation - Floating

Allows standard PV panels to be installed on large bodies of water such as drinking water reservoirs, quarry lakes, irrigation canals or remediation and tailing ponds.

Deep Green produces electricity from slow tidal and ocean currents by a unique principle. By sweeping a turbine across a large area, at a speed several times the actual speed of the underwater current, Deep Green adds a step of energy conversion compared to other technologies. As a result, Deep Green is applicable in areas where no other known technology can operate cost effectively.

The prototype is 64 m (210 ft) long with a maximum diameter of 3.8 m (12.5 ft), can be installed in waters more than 25 m (82 ft) deep thanks to its flexible mooring system and makes use of proven components from other industries. Below the surface, the 16 m (52.5 ft) rotor harvests tidal energy with variable speed power regulation and fixed pitch blades. Dubbed the world's most powerful operating tidal stream turbine, it has managed to supply over 25 percent of the electricity needs of the Orkney Islands, off the coast of northern Scotland, during its first 12 months of continuous operation.

The KPS cycle has two kites flying in the same airspace at any given time, so that while one is generating power, the other can be retracted. Energy production is therefore continuous, and the alternator is kept rotating at optimal speed.