CoTide consortium lands £7m for tidal stream R&D

Known as CoTide (Co-design to deliver Scalable Tidal Stream Energy), the project has 25 partners, including the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Strathclyde, as well as EDF Energy, the Health and Safety Executive, and Arkema International. It’s claimed this diverse mix of collaborators will bring a ‘spectrum of expertise’ in a multitude of relevant areas such as device hydrodynamics, composites, rotor materials, corrosion, risk and reliability, environmental modelling, and system control and optimisation.

“We have a huge opportunity as a country to harness the powerful tides that surround us and use innovative engineering to develop greater energy security and clean energy to help us meet our 2050 net zero goals,” said project lead Richard Willden, Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.

“This EPSRC investment in CoTide allows us to bring together world-class engineering expertise and drive forward the kind of creative, collaborative research that will ensure the UK remains a world-leader in tidal stream development and deployment.”