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=== Sabella ===
{{Main|Sabella (company)}}
[[File:Hydrolienne-D03-Sabella-PortNavalo.jpg|alt=The Sabella D03 turbine. Painted bright yellow, a steel frame tripod supports the nacelle containing the generator. To the right, painted blue is the 6-bladed rotor, the tips of the blade connected by a metal band. The turbine is sat on a quayside with metal barriers around it.|thumb|Sabella D03 turbine, with 3m rotor|left]][[File:Hydrolienne Sabella D10 (2).JPG|alt=Looking up at the Sabella D10 turbine from ground level. At the top of the image are 6 large blades around a bulbous hub, all painted bright blue. The cylindrical nacelle behind is supported on a pile with tubular steel bracing forming a tripod. The Nacelle and foundation are painted bright blue.|thumb|Sabella D10 turbine]]
'''Sabella SASAS''' iswas a French [[Small and medium-sized enterprises|SME]] based in [[Quimper]], Brittany that has been developing tidal turbines since 2008, however the company was placed into receivership in October 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who we are? |url=https://www.sabella.bzh/en/home/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Sabella |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Garanovic |first=Amir |date=2023-10-23 |title=Sabella goes into receivership |url=https://www.offshore-energy.biz/sabella-placed-in-receivership/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Offshore Energy |language=en-US}}</ref> The company had developed two main variants of their technology.
The '''D03''' was a 30 kW horizontal-axis turbine, with a six-bladed rotor 3 m in diameter, hence the name.<ref>{{Cite web |title=D03 |url=https://www.sabella.bzh/en/our-projects/d03/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Sabella |language=en-GB}}</ref> It was tested in the [[Odet]] estuary in 2008, but not grid connected. The turbine weighed 7 tonnes, and sat on a gravity base in around 25 m deep water.
The larger 1 MW '''D10''' turbine was then developed, and tested in the [[Fromveur Passage]], Brittany from June 2015. After hackers interrupted the communications link with the turbine, it began supplying power to the grid in [[Ushant]] on 5 November 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Poindexter |first=Gregory |date=2016-03-23 |title=Hackers rendered 1-MW Sabella D10 tidal turbine inoperable in France |url=https://www.hydroreview.com/business-finance/hackers-rendered-1-mw-sabella-d10-tidal-turbine-inoperable-in-france/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Hydro Review |language=en-US}}</ref> The device was periodically removed for maintenance, for example in April 2019 after having been re-deployed in October 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 April 2019 |title=Sabella tidal device undergoes maintenance |url=https://renews.biz/52642/sabella-tidal-device-undergoes-maintenance/ |website=ReNEWS.biz}}</ref> It was redeployed for a third test campaign in April 2022,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garanovic |first=Amir |date=2022-05-04 |title=Sabella reinstalls D10 tidal turbine for third test campaign offshore France |url=https://www.offshore-energy.biz/sabella-reinstalls-d10-tidal-turbine-for-third-test-campaign-offshore-france/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Offshore Energy |language=en-US}}</ref> andIn inOctober September 20232024, itInyanga wasMarine reportedEnergy took over the D10 turbine wasoperation, supplyingsecuring aroundpermission 25%to ofoperate the electricity usedit onuntil UshantAugust Island2028.<ref>{{Cite web |last=GaranovicMaksumic |first=AmirZerina |date=20232024-10-1016 |title=Sabella'sInyanga D10Marine tidalEnergy turbinetakes breakscharge powerof productionFrance’s recordfirst grid-connected tidal turbine |url=https://www.offshore-energy.biz/sabellasinyanga-d10marine-tidalenergy-turbinetakes-breakscharge-powerof-productionfrances-recordfirst-grid-connected-tidal-turbine/ |access-date=20232024-1210-2219 |website=Offshore Energy |language=en-US}}</ref>
The D10 turbine is also a horizontal-axis turbine, with a six-bladed rotor and a direct drive permanent magnet generator. It is mounted on a tubular steel tripod foundation approximately 23 m wide, with the turbine 12.5 m above the seabed.<ref>{{Cite conference |last1=Paboeuf |first1=Stéphane |last2=Sun |first2=Pascal Yen Kai |last3=Macadré |first3=Laura-Mae |last4=Malgorn |first4=Gaël |date=June 19–24, 2016 |title=Power Performance Assessment of the Tidal Turbine Sabella D10 Following IEC62600-200 |doi=10.1115/OMAE2016-54836 |url=https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2016-54836 |conference=ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Busan, South Korea}}</ref>
Sabella announced in January 2022 joint plans with [[Nova Innovation]] to each develop 6 MW of a 12 MW berth at Morlais.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nova and Sabella secure 12MW Welsh tidal site |url=https://renews.biz/75200/nova-and-sabella-secure-12mw-welsh-tidal-site/ |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=reNEWS.biz}}</ref>
In October 2024, Inyanga Marine Energy took over the D10 turbine operation, securing permission to operate it until August 2028.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maksumic |first=Zerina |date=2024-10-16 |title=Inyanga Marine Energy takes charge of France’s first grid-connected tidal turbine |url=https://www.offshore-energy.biz/inyanga-marine-energy-takes-charge-of-frances-first-grid-connected-tidal-turbine/ |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=Offshore Energy |language=en-US}}</ref>
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