THE FUTURE OF TIDAL ENERGY

🔷The Energy Department has chipped in $4 million to see a project through which says that tidal power has the potential of providing 15 percent of electricity that this nation produces by 2030.

🔷Verdant Power just finished demonstrating a phase of its Roosevelt Tidal Energy Project in New York City’s East River. That would ultimately consist of 30 35-kilowatt tidal energy turbines — a project that is expected to get officially underway by 2015.

🔷There is one tidal plant under construction in South Korea, said to be done by 2017. There are also 9 other proposed tidal power stations from around the world that would have a capacity larger than any existing tidal station today.