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Article: New tide study puts Mersey power plan back on agenda.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2005
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Byline: BY SAM LISTER Daily Post Staff
THE Mersey estuary could be used to generate electricity in what would be the UK's largest wave and tidal power project.
Peel Holdings and the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) are launching a major investigation today into how to harness power from the river.
They will assess the latest renewable energy technologies in a bid to find one suitable for the estuary, including building an underwater fence, which would stretch across the Mersey and hold tidal turbines in place below water level.
If any of the schemes went ahead it would become one of the biggest engineering projects in the ...