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Marine Energy Market: Huge Potential for the UK
The value of worldwide electricity revenues from wave and tidal stream projects could ultimately be between pounds sterling 60bn (euro 77.40bn) and pounds sterling 190bn (euro 245.10bn) per year. The United Kingdom is a clear leader both in terms of activity and in terms of support to the sector. It possesses 50% of Europe's wave energy potential. According to estimates, 20% of UK's total electricity requirement can be harnessed from ocean energy. - Read More
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Tidal Energy in UK & France
UK is weighing a plan to place a 10-mile-long “barrage,” a sort of dam, across the Severn Estuary between Wales and southwest England. The rise and fall of the estuary’s 48-foot tides would spin turbines, like a hydroelectric dam, but it would work both ways, as the tide roared in and out. The $29 billion tidal-power scheme is being fought on economic and environmental grounds, and its fate is uncertain. A similar, smaller barrage has been producing energy in France for 40 years.
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