Consultation

Phase one

The first consultation was held between January and April 2009. It covered:

• A recommended shortlist of schemes for more detailed analysis in 2009;
• The scope of the Strategic Environmental Assessment that is being carried out within the feasibility study; and
• The issues the feasibility study is considering and how these are being approached.

The consultation document from Phase 1 and the Government response are available at the bottom of this page.

Phase two

The final report of the study public was published on 18 October 2010. It is available on the Department for Energy and Climate Change website.

The findings have concluded that now is not the right time to develop a Severn tidal power scheme.

Visit: Severn Tidal Power Final report: Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) website (external link)

Environment, Sustainability and Housing Minister gave a written statement responding to the announcement. This can be found under the related links on the right hand side of this page.