title: Marine energy.
abstract: Marine energy is renewable and carbon free and has the potential to make a significant contribution to energy supplies in the future. In the UK, tidal power barrages and wave energy could make the largest contribution, and tidal stream energy could make a smaller but still a useful contribution. This paper provides an overview of the current status and prospects for electrical generation from marine energy. It concludes that a realistic potential contribution to UK electricity supplies is approximately 80 TWh per year but that many years of development and investment will be required if this potential is to be realized.
authors.affiliation: Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, Maylands Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP2 7TR, UK. d.kerr@sir-robert-mcalpine.com
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kerr
mesh_terms: D003246:Conservation of Energy Resources / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D004560:Electricity; D004736:Energy-Generating Resources; D005544:Forecasting; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D011210:Power Plants / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D006113:United Kingdom; D014872:Water Movements