The report quoted Mr Hutton as saying: A country of change must be prepared to embrace tomorrow’s energy sources. A truly visionary project, unparalleled anywhere in the world in scale, that alone could generate 5% of the UK’s electricity from renewable sources by 2020.
Stating that the government would fund a multi-million pound study to identify the use of tidal power for generating electricity, Mr Hutton said that the government will not deter from any critical decision regarding the establishment of a new generation of nuclear power stations.
The government is also mulling over harnessing the power of the Severn Estuary on Britain’s west coast, Mr Hutton said.
