Editing Tory Channel (section)

==Tidal power==
{{See also|Ocean power in New Zealand}}
Energy Pacifica planned to install up to ten underwater [[Tidal power#Tidal stream generator|tidal stream turbines]], each able to produce up to 1.2 MW, near the Cook Strait entrance to Tory Channel. They claimed Tory Channel had tidal flows of {{convert|3.6|m/s|ft/s}} with good [[bathymetry]] and access to the electricity network.<ref name="benign">[http://www.contrafedpublishing.co.nz/Energy+NZ/Benign+tides.html Benign tides] Energy NZ  No.6, Spring 2008. Contrafed Publishing.</ref> Other designs envisaged up to 50 turbines, but there are uncertainties about flow rates, the area is about {{convert|15|km||abbr=on}} from the [[HVDC Inter-Island]] transmission station at [[Ōraumoa / Fighting Bay]] and a calculation in 2013 suggested that an economic return was unlikely.<ref name=":0" />