Swansea University awarded funding to determine impact of tidal and wave extraction

Funding of more than £1m has been awarded to a research project involving Swansea University looking at the effects of new tidal and wave energy projects.

The project aims to determine the limits to tidal and wave energy extraction before potentially damaging environmental and ecological impacts occur.

Swansea University is one of 5 Universities involved in the project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) The project is led by Heriot Watt University

Associate Professor Harshinie Karunarathna in the College of Engineering at Swansea University, who will be leading the work on impacts of marine renewable energy projects on sea bed sediment environment, said: “The project will shed light on how large scale extraction of wave and tidal energy will affect coastal and marine sediment dynamics, which may have considerable impacts on the physical and ecological marine environment.

“This will enable us to understand the extent to which marine energy can be harnessed without damaging the environment.”

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