Advantages and Disadvantages of Tidal Power
- Energy is freely available and inexhaustible.
- Power can be used to meet local needs of coastal area and for peak loads.
- Power is ensured round the year though its operation is intermittent.
- It is pollution free.
- It is unaffected by the vagaries of monsoon.
Disadvantages of Tidal Power :
- Cost of plant is high and needs long constructional period.
- Not many locations are suitable for installing such a system.
- Power developed is on limited scale only.
- Sedimentation of basins is a problem.
- Sea water is corrosive.
- It has uneven operation.
- Marine life is affected.