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=== Sustainable Marine Energy ===

'''Sustainable Marine Energy Ltd''' (SME) was a developer of floating tidal stream turbines, founded in 2012 but went into administration in August 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garanovic |first=Amir |date=2023-08-10 |title=Sustainable Marine Energy sinks into administration |url=https://www.offshore-energy.biz/sustainable-marine-energy-sinks-into-administration/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Offshore Energy |language=en-US}}</ref> Originally based in London, it moved to [[East Cowes]], Isle of Wight in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barrass |first=Christopher |date=2013-05-31 |title=Sustainable Marine Energy opens new HQ on the Isle of Wight |url=https://onthewight.com/sustainable-marine-energy/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Isle of Wight News from OnTheWight |language=en-GB}}</ref> The company then moved its operational base to Edinburgh[[Kirkwall]] in XXXOrkney in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-05-03 |title=Sustainable Marine Energy raises £4.5m investment for tidal array in Orkney |url=https://www.newpower.info/2016/05/sustainable-marine-energy-raises-4-5m-investment-for-tidal-array-in-orkney/ |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=New Power |language=en-US}}</ref> By 2017, the head office had been relocated to ''La Belle Esperance'', a barge moored on The Shore, [[Leith]], Edinburgh.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-07-03 |title=Contact Sustainable Marine |url=http://sustainablemarine.com/contact |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703095315/http://sustainablemarine.com/contact |archive-date=2017-07-03 |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=}}</ref>

Their first platform, '''PLAT-O''', was a submerged mid-water-column device, with two 50&nbsp;kW [[Schottel (company)|Schottel]] SIT turbines, mounted between three buoyant hulls. It was initially tested in [[The Solent]], before being tested at [[European Marine Energy Centre|EMEC]] in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 June 2016 |title=SME wets Plato head |url=https://renews.biz/42313/sme-wets-plato-head/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=ReNEWS.biz}}</ref>