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Plans for Swansea Bay’s groundbreaking tidal power project have been revived with its backers claiming it can be built without public financial support.
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A “Tidal Lagoon Taskforce” has convened in Wales to enable local and national authorities, as well as community and business leaders, to consider the full suite of options for financing and delivering Swansea Bay tidal lagoon independent to Westminster.
However novel and appealing the proposal is… the costs that would be incurred would be
The developer behind plans to build a £1.3 billion tidal lagoon plant in Swansea Bay has accused the government of distorting figures used to justify its decision not to back the scheme.
The government has announced it will not support the £1.3 billion Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project. What does this mean for tidal lagoon power? David Blackman investigates.
The government will not back plans for Swansea’s pioneering tidal lagoon power plant based on figures showing that nuclear and offshore wind can generate the same amount of electricity at a third of the cost.
Plans to build a pioneering tidal lagoon power plant off the south Wales coast look
Energy minister Claire Perry is to face questions from the joint-committee inquiry into the Swansea
Principality's local authorities' retirement investment fund backs £1.3 billion tidal project in principle.
Labour has called for no trade-off between government backing for a nuclear power station in north Wales and a pioneering tidal lagoon plant in Swansea.
Greg Clark has signalled a shift in the government’s long-standing block on direct investment in nuclear energy as he announced the next phase of talks on Horizon’s Wylfa Newydd plant.
Greg Clark is due to make an announcement this evening on nuclear power in which he is expected to give the go ahead for plans to build a new atom plant in north Wales.
The government is making a “historic mistake” by rejecting the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project, Ed Davey has warned, following reports of its imminent demise.
Three of the companies in the supply chain for the stalled Swansea Bay tidal lagoon power plant have gone bust while the government has been dithering over whether to back the project, its promoter has revealed.
The Welsh Conservatives have thrown their weight behind Swansea Bay’s tidal power project amid reports that its backer is braced for job cuts unless the government decides on a go ahead for the pioneering scheme.
Plans to build Swansea’s pathfinder tidal power project face “genuine challenges”, according to Wales’ first minister, who has emerged in recent months as the project’s key champion.
A groundbreaking tidal power project planned for Swansea Bay can be delivered on the same terms as the Hinkley Point nuclear power station, a Conservative MP has claimed.
The government is assessing the scale of the Welsh government’s offer to help bankroll the
