Tidal Energy in India -7500 Km Coastline, hidden potential
Tidal Energy in India -7500 Km Coastline, hidden potential Rakhee Iyer , March 29, 2017, 0 Comments India boasts of 7,500 kilometres long coastline, being one of the 20 places worldwide where the height of the high tide is over five metres higher than the low tide to capture the tidal power potential. But there are no tidal energy-based power plants in India yet. Why is this the case? India’s Potential India has been looking at generating electricity via tidal power since the 1980s. There were project reports prepared for harnessing this energy from the Panchapada River in Odisha and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy made an assessment of the potential of tidal energy in India, it is estimated that the country can produce 7000 MW of power in the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat, 1200 MW of power in the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat and about 100 MW of power in the Gangetic delta of Sunderbans in West Bengal. What ...