A Severn Barrage with the potential to generate around 7% of the UK’s energy needs has been ruled out by an independent commission which instead is recommending over the long-term a series of ...

Tidal energy is energy obtained from changing sea levels (the tide moving from high to low and vice versa.) This renewable energy source has great potential as tides are much more predictable than ...

Mersey Tidal Power has the potential to become the world's largest tidal scheme (Image credit: Pixabay) "Tackling the climate emergency is a global challenge that we can no longer afford to ignore," ...

Engineers claim that building estuary barrages in the North West could provide more than 5% of the UK's electricity. Researchers examined ways to generate electricity from tidal sources of renewable ...

A tidal lagoon planned off a UK coast could generate power for two million homes while helping Britain meet soaring energy demand.

Barrages across the Solway Firth, Morecambe Bay, and the Mersey and Dee estuaries in the northwest UK could provide more than 5% of the nation’s electricity and meet half the region’s electricity, a ...

Hafren Power Ltd. submitted a plan to the British government to build a £25 billion ($40 billion) tidal-energy barrage across the river Severn, which would generate as much as five percent of the ...

As offshore wind has made remarkable strides in modern energy markets, it is only natural that developers are increasingly turning to the ocean for further power generation opportunities. After ...

The possibility of some kind of Severn Barrage or tidal power station in the Bristol Channel will be looked at again in a joint venture between local councils on either side of the estuary. A new ...

Imagine this. A structure, 24 times longer than the Hoover Dam, stretching out into the sea. Its 9-kilometer wall curves towards the horizon before returning to rejoin the coast, creating a giant ...

Engineers at the University of Liverpool claim that building estuary barrages in the North West could provide more than 5% of the UK's electricity. Researchers, working in collaboration with Proudman ...