240 gigawatts by 2050?

BREST - (France) - 19/09/2011
Oringial article by Francis Rousseau  - translated and editted by Christopher Longmore

According to a recent study by the Carbon Trust that  follows the report Accelerating Marine Energy Report  CTC97, published in July, 240GW of marine energy capacity could be installed in the world of by 2050 including 190 MW for the UK alone. For now only ten megawatts has been installed worldwide and it is not expected to reach 1 GW (1,000 MW) until 2016-2017. 75% of this massive capacity planned to be installed by 2050 could be provided by the wave power alone (the United States has determined that it alone could provide 10% of its consumption) and the rest from wave and tidal power.  Ocean thermal energy (ETM) was counted for a very small part in the U.K.


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