UK grants planning permit to tidal power project

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has given planning permission for a prototype tidal power project in the northeast England, industry minister John Hutton said on Monday.

Pulse Tidal Ltd’s test project, which has been given 878,000 of public money, could generate up to 0.15 megawatts of electricity from underwater currents in the Humber Estuary near Hull.

If successful, the technology could be used to develop 1-MW units strung together in tidal power farms generating up to 100MW, or enough to power the equivalent of 70,000 homes.

Reuters