OTEC Plant to Be Developed in India

Though back in the energy crisis of the 1970's, there were high hopes for commercialization of OTEC (ocean thermal energy conversion) in the United States, no one has ever even filed an application to license an OTEC plant. But in India, there's news of an OTEC development in this piece, Ocean thermal Energy Plant Coming Up Soon , The Hindu (8/6/03). The blurb quotes Minister of State for Non-conventional Energy Resources M Kannappan as saying that a one mw floating Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion power plant is in the final stages of commissioning near Tuticorin port.