Community & Business Toolkit for Tidal Energy Development

Biological/Ecological Effects, Engineering, Geophysics/Hydrodynamics, Socio-economics: MacDougall, S., J. Colton and A. Howell (eds) (2013)

Acadia Tidal Energy Institute, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS

Link: http://tidalenergy.acadiau.ca/community-business-toolkit.html

The Community and Business Toolkit for Tidal Energy Development contains a series of modules that describe opportunities and strategies for communities and businesses to become involved in tidal energy development. The modules also provide relevant advice, checklists and links.

•Module 1: Overview of Tidal Energy

•Module 2: Measuring and Assessing the Tidal Resource

•Module 3: Tidal Power Extraction Devices

•Module 4: The Regulatory Regime for Tidal Energy

•Module 5: Environmental Risk Assessment

•Module 6: Stakeholder and Community Engagement

•Module 7: Financial Evaluation and Cost of Energy

•Module 8: Opportunities and Strategies for Communities

•Module 9: Opportunities and Strategies for Businesses

•Module 10: Financing, Government Supports, and Managing Risk

•Module 11: Assessing the Potential Economic Impacts of a Five Megawatt Tidal Energy Development in the Digby Area of the Bay of Fundy