Quantification of Exploitable Tidal Energy within the UK waters

ABPmer has been awarded funding from npower Juice to build on their highly successful DTI Atlas of UK Marine Renewable Energy Resources and identify areas of exploitable tidal energy within UK waters.

The project involves the characterisation of deployment criteria for principle groups of tidal stream technologies and the broad scale rationalisation of suitable areas. The viability of developing such areas will then be considered against a range of economic, environmental and constraint based measures to help quantify the level of potentially exploitable tidal resource. This study builds on the previous Juice funded project ‘Path to Power’, as well as other ongoing initiatives for the Scottish SEA and the SDC ‘Tidal Power in the UK’.

The program of work commenced in December 2006 and the project results are due for publication in May 2007.