Deezer 21 December, Deezer announced a new service level offering two hours of free, ad-supported music streaming a month, available to users worldwide, the company's first free music streaming service outside France. CEO Dauchez said that Deezer was also looking for a partner to introduce service in the United States, who was "able to provide us with a significant volume of subscribers" to help offset what he called the "unbelievably high" costs of entering the US market. As of December 2012, Deezer had about three million users paying for subscriptions, out of a monthly active user base of about seven million,
Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station ie as one-way power generation. This slightly unconventional and relatively inefficient approach has been chosen to balance a complex mix of existing land use, water use, conservation, environmental and power generation considerations. The station's mean operating tidal range is , with a spring tidal range of . The working basin area was originally intended to be and has been reduced by land reclamation and freshwater dykes to , likely to be reduced further. The power station was built in 2011 and started to operate in 2012. The project cost US$560 million was borne by the South Korean Government. After the