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Well, I can think of the inverse - separating a piece of coastline and pumping seawater out when you have excess energy, letting it back in via turbines to get energy. In that context UK does have fitting terrain, it's just underwater.
Seawater is very nasty to machinery though.
Tidal power continues to be researched, but it's proving very difficult, currently completely unviable. It certainly cannot replace all non-renewable energy.
I didn't mean tides. I meant a dam separating an area, from which water is pumped out to "store" energy, and let in through generators to "spend" energy.