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FIG. 9.14 Aggregated power generated over a tidal cycle for various M2 tidal current amplitude
ranges throughout the NW European shelf seas. (Reproduced from S.P. Neill, M.R. Hashemi, M.J.
Lewis, Tidal energy leasing and tidal phasing, Renew. Energy 85 (2016) 580–587, under the
Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).)

FIG. 9.15 Optimized temporal evolution of tidal stream development over the NW European shelf
seas. An ‘array’ is a unit of 10 × 2 MW devices. (Reproduced from S.P. Neill, M.R. Hashemi, M.J.
Lewis, Optimal phasing of the European tidal stream resource using the greedy algorithm with
penalty function, Energy 73 (2014) 997–1006, under the Creative Commons Attribution License
(CC BY).)