Samenvatting

Meeting the Paris Climate Agreement goals for renewable energy, sea level rise protection and nature preservation require innovative multifunctional solutions in the Netherlands. As part of the Delta21 project, which looks at creating an energy storing reservoir and an energy producing tidal power plant while protecting the hinterland from flooding and restoring the Haringvliet fish migration, this research proposes the most optimal design for that tidal power plant. From three different alternatives comes the most suitable when considering fish-friendliness, costs, energy efficiency, maintenance efficiency and transportation of the caisson elements. The stability and strength of the caisson, during governing load situations, from the most suitable design, are then verified through calculations in two phases: transportation & immersion and commission. The results of this thesis thus provide a calculation methodology from civil engineering standards for a preliminary design of a tidal power plant.