Are Tidal Power Generation Suitable as the Future Generation for Malaysian Climate and Location: A Technical Review

摘要

Tidal energy is a pollution-free and renewable energy; therefore tidal power generation is increasingly well known nowadays in this world. This paper is related to the latest issue and long-range view for the development of tidal energy when the countries in the world take the first step to exploit and make use of tidal energy as early as last century by putting effort in research, practice and build many tidal power generation stations. As everyone knows, water turbine generation unit is an essential element to build a tidal power generation. Therefore, this paper also refers to how the water turbine generating units functioned in the tidal power generation stations and roughly explains their features as well.