
The 1.5MW AR1500 seabed mounted turbine is being designed and delivered by Atlantis Resources and Lockheed Martin.
It will be one of four turbines in the phase one of the MeyGen project and is due to arrive in Scotland for installation in 2016.
The MeyGen project is situated in the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth in northern Scotland.
By the early 2020s, the project aims to deploy up to 398MW of offshore tidal stream turbines to supply clean and renewable electricity to the UK National Grid.
The AR1500 will have an approximate rotor diameter of 18m. Schottel Hydro’s hub has a housing diameter of 2.4m and weighs about 35 tons.
The hub will be delivered in early 2016, with installation of the AR1500 planned later in that year.
Schottel Hydro project manager Jens-Henning Bernstein said: "For this project we especially build on the success of the turbine shaft, hub and pitch mechanism including hydraulics and controls we provided to the first Hammerfest HS1000 turbine in 2011."
Apart from turbine installations, phase one also includes building the onshore infrastructure to support the project.
Every turbine will have its own connection to shore by cables running in horizontal directional drilled bores via the seabed.
Image: Schottel Hydro manufactures the variable pitch hub of the AR1500 turbine under contract to Lockheed Martin for the MeyGen tidal energy project. Photo: courtesy of SCHOTTEL Group.