Tidal energy potential in UK waters

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Maritime Engineering

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 155-164

  Burrows, Richard ^a   Yates, Nicolas C ^a   Hedges, Terence S ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Zhou, Jian G ^a   Chen, Daoyi Y ^a   Walkington, Ian A ^b   Wolf, Judith ^b   Holt, Jason ^b   Proctor, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dams, barrages and reservoirs; Hydraulics and hydrodynamics; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

DAMS; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; DISCOUNT RATES; ELECTRICITY DEMANDS; ELECTRICITY PRICES; POWER POTENTIAL; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION; TIDAL BARRAGES;

TIDAL POWER;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TIDAL POWER; TURBINE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77956407000     PISSN: 17417597     EISSN: 17517737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/maen.2009.162.4.155     Document Type: Article

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