City leaders are hoping for “good news soon” on government support for a multi-billion pound tidal link plan across River Mersey. Since taking up his post in 2017, a tidal barrage has been an ambition ...

Tidal energy technologies are still in the early days of their commercial development, but their potential for generating ...

Lagoon v Barrage Tidal lagoons are typically loop shaped enclosures which collect water during high tide and release it through turbines to generate electricity.

They are seen as having a lower environmental impact compared with dam-like barrages, which work on the same principal, but span the full width of a river, estuary or bay.

The UK should not ignore the potential to generate 2% of its electricity from a tidal lagoon, the author of a commissioned report has said.

A DEBATE in the House of Lords on May 26 revived the publicity given about two years ago to a somewhat grandiose scheme for impounding the tidal area of the Thames above Woolwich by means of a dam ...