A new commission will look again at whether a barrage or tidal lagoons could be built in the Severn Estuary to generate green energy from the tides.
The estuary has the second largest tidal range in the world and previously-mooted schemes have been estimated to have huge potential to generate renewable electricity. Earlier schemes have never been taken forward, despite expensive feasibility work being done, amid opposition due to the impact on bird life in the Estuary, the impact on the port at Bristol as well as the cost.
In 2021 WalesOnline looked in detail at the potential for tidal power in the Severn and whether the increasing cost of electricity and new understandings of how to generate power from the Estuary were going to lead to the prospect of a barrage or lagoons being revisited. You can read this by clicking here.
