India Prepares to Become the King of Tidal Power in Asia

As a country with enormous potential for both wind power and solar energy, India has been steadily working towards building up the respective technologies to establish their renewable energy reputation. One of the areas they have yet to consider, however, is tidal and wave based energies and India is about to make a change for the better in that department. With plans to have a tidal power station built in the country within the next couple of years, the nation is ready to grab the title of the first Asian nation to host tidal power.

The tidal power plant that is being planned for India is currently expected to provide a capacity of fifty megawatts of renewable energy with the potential to be expanded up to a larger 250 megawatt capacity. The plant is to be built by the Atlantis Resources Corporation, which is a London based renewable energy company, and located in the Gulf of Kutch in the Indian state of Gujarat. Atlantis believes that the plant, while currently expected to reach the 250 megawatt capacity, is capable of attaining a 300 megawatt maximum capacity. They also believe the area might be suitable for offshore wind power at some point in the future.

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