Plan for Dubai-style artificial island in Swansea Bay

A global consortium is said to be backing plans to create an artificial island in Swansea Bay that would offer housing and generate renewable energy.The ambition is to create a Dubai-style island that would offer housing, while also using it as a site to harness wind and solar power as well as tidal energy from a surrounding tidal barrier lagoon containing water turbines.The consortium behind the Dragon Energy Island development has not yet been publicly revealed.Welsh innovation group DST, which is working to bring the plan to life, said the members would be revealed in early 2021 when a full schedule of proposals is published.DST, the driving force behind the consortium, is the inventors of ground-breaking large scale battery technology enabling efficient and sustainable energy storage.The energy storage capabilities are vital to the success of the Dragon Energy Island, solving the problem of storing the energy created by natural power.