Severn Barrage Tidal Power
The Severn Barrage is a proposed tidal power station to be built across the Bristol Channel (Severn Estuary). The River Severn has a tidal range of 14 metres - the second highest in the world - making it perfect for tidal power generation.
The 20 billion …
Introduction to Tidal Power
Tidal power is another way to generate electricity extracting energy from the sea (see also wave power). Twice a day enormous volumes of water rise and fall with the tides, and the UK is perfectly placed to take advantage of this free energy.
Up to 20% …
Tidal Turbines
There are many ways to generate electricity from the huge power of the tides: building tidal barrages, exploiting naturally occurring tidal streams, and tidal fences (a scaled down version of the tidal barrage). However, all of these techniques require huge financial investment and have very …
World's First Open Sea Tidal Turbine
The first tidal turbine generator in open-sea in the world was installed 1 mile off the coast of Lynmouth, Devon, in spring 2003 by Bristol-based Marine Current Turbines (MCT)
The location, between Foreland Ledge and Foreland Point on the North Devon coast was selected because of …
La Rance Tidal Power Plant
La Rance Tidal Barrage (Usine maremotrice de la Rance) was built in the 1960's near St. Malo in France. A dam 330 metres long was build in front of a 22 square kilometer basin. The tidal range (the difference between high and low tides) averages …
Lunar Energy Tidal Power
Yorkshire-based Lunar Energy Limited are working with Rotech, an Aberdeen-based research and development company on tidal turbines to exploit the vast energy carried by ocean tidal streams. The result of this work is The Rotech Tidal Turbine (RTT).
This tidal turbine has been designed to be …
TidEl Tidal Turbines
TidEl is a Tidal Turbine prototype from SMD Hydrovision. TidEL differs from most tidal turbines in that it floats and is restrained by mooring chains to the sea bed rather than being fixed to piles driven into the sea bed.
The unit when completed will incorporate …
Alderney Tidal and Wave Power
The tiny Channel Island of Alderney has been recognised by the energy industry as one of the best potential tidal power locations - better than most of the UK and all of the other Channel Islands. Potentially there is from 750MW to 3GW of tidal …
New York Tidal Power Project
The first of six underwater turbines has been (published 2006) anchored 10 metres deep in New York's East River between Manhattan and Queens.
Soon a further five similar underwater turbine generators will be installed at the same location generating 150-200kW of electricity destined to meet 50% …