Use of Tidal Energy as Renewable Energy

Abstract

Currently climate change represents the focus attention of the global world and how to reducing greenhouse gas emission, which led to use other energy source, especially renewable energy source, Tidal power it is a renewable and clean source of energy, can represent a solution of the many environmental pollutants resulting from use another energy source, besides this source exposed to exhaustible as a result of intensive use. Tidal power is unconventional sources of energy which is similar to hydropower renewable energy source; just the difference in the generation method, tidal power generates electricity from the flow of the tide. The location of tidal power plant is very important process and it has a certain condition must be taken into account in the selection, Tidal power source had many advantages over other renewable sources such as predictability This thesis displays the physical principles of tidal energy and the various methods of utilizing tidal power to generate electricity. It illustrates the main feature (operating mode) of tidal power plant (tidal barrage and tidal current turbines) and detailed explanation about tidal energy mechanism and some of the environmental effect. Also, it briefly discusses the research has been done on the possibility of construct tidal power plant in red sea Sudan.