Could work really start on the Swansea tidal lagoon next year?

Jessica Shankleman
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Tidal Lagoon boss reckons he can transform the UK's energy landscape, starting with a £850m project in Swansea Bay

By this time next year, Mark Shorrock and his team at Tidal Lagoon Power expect to be donning their hardhats and starting the construction of a massive civil engineering project in Swansea Bay, which has...

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