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Review of Tidal Lagoon Technology and Opportunities for Integration within the UK Energy System

Grazia Todeschini

Inventions, Volume: 2, Issue: 3, Start page: 14

Swansea University Author: Grazia Todeschini

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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/inventions2030014

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The number of distributed resources for renewable energy installed worldwide has been increasing rapidly in the last decade, and the great majority of these installations consist of solar panels and wind turbines. Other renewable sources of energy are not exploited to the same level: for instance, t...

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ISSN: 2411-5134
Published: 2017
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