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Agucadoura Wave Farm in Portugal. The following page lists most power stations that run on wave power, however there are not many operational at present as wave energy is still a nascent technology. A longer list of proposed and prototype wave power devices is given on List of wave power projects.
It is expected that co-locating the wind and wave energy with shared infrastructure will reduce both costs and intermittency of the electricity generated. [ 5 ] In March 2024, WavePiston also announced they were working with the government in Barbados to conduct a pre-feasibility study into constructing wave farms in Barbados.
The Cycloidal Wave Energy Converter is a wave energy concept being developed by Atargis Energy Corporation in Colorado. The patents were filed in 2005, and the company was founded in 2010, after initial research showed potential. [67] It is a fully submerged wave termination device, located offshore, with a direct drive generator.
The potential energy density is equal to the kinetic energy, [1] both contributing half to the wave energy density E, as can be expected from the equipartition theorem. The waves propagate on the surface, where crests travel with the phase velocity while the energy is transported horizontally with the group velocity .
This is the most common type of deepwater wave energy generator. [12] The generator is driven with a high-pressure hydraulics system. [12] The wave motion is captured by the circular rotation of the floating mechanism, and translated to crankshafts within the Azura. These crankshafts provide the motion for the high pressure hydraulic system. [13]
The Mutriku Breakwater Wave Plant is a wave power plant constructed by Ente Vasco de la Energía (EVE), the Basque energy agency, in the bay of Mutriku in the Bay of Biscay. It is the world's first breakwater wave power plant with a multiple turbine arrangement. [1] The plant has a capacity of 296 kW from 16 turbo generator sets. [2]
The project bases on the design of Islay LIMPET, which uses a tunnelled wave plant concept with an oscillating water column device built into the face of a cliff, utilizing an air chamber in order to capture wave energy. [3] The model tests, site investigations and design issues were completed by start of 2005.
Sotenäs is a wave farm located in Kungshamn, in the municipality of Sotenäs, Sweden. The facility consists of 36 wave energy converters (WECs), with a total installed capacity of nearly 1 MW. Each WEC generates power using point absorber buoys connected to linear generators on the seabed. The generators are located at a depth of 50 m (160 ft).