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Tidal range energy resource and optimization – Past perspectives and future challenges

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal 01 Nov 2018 United Kingdom Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Renewable Energy, volume 127, pages 763-778 (issn: 0960-1481,

Authors: Simon P. Neill; Athanasios Angeloudis; Peter E. Robins; Ian Walkington; Sophie L. Ward; Ian Masters; Matt J. Lewis; +9 Authors

doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2018.05.007

handle: 10044/1/73251

Tidal range energy resource and optimization – Past perspectives and future challenges

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Abstract

Tidal energy is one of the most predictable forms of renewable energy. Although there has been much commercial and R&D progress in tidal stream energy, tidal range is a more mature technology, with tidal range power plants having a history that extends back over 50 years. With the 2017 publication of the “Hendry Review” that examined the feasibility of tidal lagoon power plants in the UK, it is timely to review tidal range power plants. Here, we explain the main principles of tidal range power plants, and review two main research areas: the present and future tidal range resource, and the optimization of tidal range power plants. We also discuss how variability in the electricity generated from tidal range power plants could be partially offset by the development of multiple power plants (e.g. lagoons) that are complementary in phase, and by the provision of energy storage. Finally, we discuss the implications of the Hendry Review, and what this means for the future of tidal range power plants in the UK and internationally.

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United Kingdom

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Keywords

Optimization, Technology, 330, Energy & Fuels, SCHEMES, HYDRODYNAMIC IMPACTS, 551, 0915 Interdisciplinary Engineering, Resource assessment, EUROPEAN SHELF SEAS, BRISTOL CHANNEL, Hendry Review, UK, Green & Sustainable Science & Technology, tidal barrage, Tidal barrage, 580, Science & Technology, Energy, POWER-PLANT, LEVEL CHANGE, Tidal lagoon, 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 40 CANDLES, Swansea Bay, SEVERN BARRAGE, Science & Technology - Other Topics, resource assessment, tidal lagoon, optimization, GENERATION, 0913 Mechanical Engineering

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