ABPmer has been providing marine environmental advice and support to the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project since 2012.

ABPmer welcomes the decision by the energy and climate change secretary to grant planning permission to the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project in South Wales.

ABPmer has been providing marine environmental advice and support to the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project since 2012; one of a series of tidal range schemes the developer, Tidal Lagoon Power, is considering around the UK's shores.

Bill Cooper, Managing Director at ABPmer said:

"It's excellent news that Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay has been given the green light, especially as it is a landmark scheme, potentially the world’s first tidal lagoon.

We have been working with the developer from the outset, undertaking feasibility studies and contributing to the Environmental Statement that supported the planning application.” 

Using their multi-disciplinary expertise, ABPmer wrote the navigation, coastal processes, marine mammals and benthic ecology chapters. Authoring these four topics presented an important opportunity to closely integrate the marine subjects, creating a unified document.

ABPmer has been involved with the UK tidal range sector since 2008 having been part of the consortium that delivered the Strategic Environmental Assessment associated with the Severn Tidal Power Feasibility Study that investigated whether the UK Government could support a tidal power scheme in the Severn and, if so, on what terms. A high level study that still remains relevant to advancing lagoon and barrage schemes.