ONE COAST ONE FUTURE - Kinmel Bay Community Flood Plan

ONE COAST, ONE FUTURE...
LLANDDULAS PILOT TIDAL IMPOUNDMENT: SCOPING UPDATE JULY 2013
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Author: cllr.dr.stuart.anderson@conwy.gov.uk
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Suitable seabed
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Useful tidal range
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Good grid connectivity
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Valuable socio-economic fit
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Maritime & tourism benefits
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No estuarial controversy
Above: taking the long view. After pilot scheme P, Liverpool Bay
project sequence eventually uses 700 sq km of seabed, ~10GW
installed capacity netting average ~3GW at 75% energy extraction.
For detailed background review visit
www.marenproject.eu/eng/contact/
Above: Llanddulas aerial view from W. Dotted arrows
indicate coastal connections of pilot scheme options...
Full-size commercial
schemes 2 & 3a or 3b
must follow credibly from
the selected pilot option
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Ultra low rpm, low submergence,
fish-friendly twin pump-turbines:
~300-400 MW Installed Capacity
at 75 –100% net energy extraction for 20 sq km pilot options.
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Above: comma shape outlines a 20 sq km pilot scheme with westfacing plant array 1C. ( Equivalent E-facing option shown to R ) .
Community benefit resources
Landscape and heritage
THE
CALL TO
THE CALL
TO EMBRACE
EMBRACE LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIP OF
OF PLACE:
PLACE:
Wales Government* calls sustainable development ‘ investment in locally conceived
and generated ideas under an overarching strategy ’ - the chicken-and-egg conundrum.
To help strengthen our coastal communities, the Llanddulas project should be used to
flag up, incubate and hatch parallel adaptive regeneration ideas ( as below and L.... )
Active community travel and
leisure tourism
*In Vibrant and Viable Communities ( 2013 )
Active beach
management
and watersports
Two
Two--storey refuges
for the vulnerable
Emergency planning and
housing stock resilience
Rock armour (~20% of material in
tidal impoundments ) could come from
local quarries such as Penmaenmawr Mtn,
where the upper reservoir can simultaneously
be shaped for a much needed ‘brown‘brown-field ’
conventional pumped storage scheme of
order 2x Dinorwig ’s capacity......