Wave Energy

Ocean waves are created by wind blowing over the water surface. As a result of strong winds, blowing over the water surface for long distances, large waves can arrive for example at the coast of the Atlantic ocean. Because waves move across the ocean with very little loss of energy they can arrive at the coast even long after the winds that created them have stopped.

Wave Energy Converters (WECs) are designed to extract the kinetic and potential energy from the waves. The amount of energy in a wave depends primarily on its height and the wave period. Different types of WECs can be deployed for example offshore on the water surface, close to shore in shallower waters or even attached to onshore structures like bridges or breakwaters.

For small scale applications and specialised markets, such as providing electricity for small communities or powering aquaculture farms, single devices can be used. For utility scale electricity production, arrays of parks in the range of hundreds of Megawatts and even Gigawatts are possible. Likely locations for wave energy parks in Europe can be found for example in Portugal, Scotland, Spain, France and Ireland.

First commercial devices that have been tested to date, range in hundreds of kilowatts which allow for modular designs of clusters of up to tens of Megawatts.

 Source: www.dutchmarineenergy.com

MEA SME’s working on Wave Energy

 Benson Engineering  Centipod Ltd  EVER  IWES  Jospa  Development v Kim Nielsen  Mocean Energy  Novige AB  Ocean Grazer B.V.  Pure Marine Gen Ltd  Resolute Marine Ltd  SEA Energies International  Sea Wave Energy Ltd  SEATURNS  Teamwork Technology B.V.  TFI Marine  Waveco AS  WaveForce Energy  Waveram Limited  Wenverter Ltd