Mark Shorrock is a renewable energy entrepreneur, who first entered the world of green energy in the early 2000s, after a background in the film industry. After specialising in low carbon companies and solar power, he started working towards his first tidal lagoon in 2011, realising the potential for tidal energy in the UK and subsequently creating Tidal Lagoon Power – to begin exploring tidal energy opportunities in six UK locations. The first of these tidal lagoons, the 320MW Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon, was awarded a Development Consent Order in 2015, and initial plans for a subsequent Cardiff Tidal Lagoon were first unveiled in March 2015.