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  2. Wave power - Wikipedia

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    Wave power is the capture of energy of wind waves to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water. A machine that exploits wave power is a wave energy converter (WEC). Waves are generated primarily by wind passing over the sea's surface and also by tidal forces, temperature variations, and other ...

  3. Islay LIMPET - Wikipedia

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    Islay LIMPET (Land Installed Marine Power Energy Transmitter) was the world's first commercial wave power device and was connected to the United Kingdom's National Grid, in November 2000. [2] The device was initially rated at 500 kW, but this was later downrated to 250 kW. The device was eventually decommissioned in 2012.

  4. List of wave power projects - Wikipedia

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    The Neptune Wave Engine has been developed by Neptune Equipment Corp. in Vancouver, Canada since 2010, when they found they were not able to purchase a wave power system for their cottage. [76] Wave energy is captured with multiple float-pistons constrained to move vertically up and down piles, informally called "doughnut on a stick". [77]

  5. How to turn ocean waves into renewable energy - AOL

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    The power of the ocean could soon be used to power homes in the U.S. as scientists prepare to test an untapped form of renewable energy. The U.S. Department of Energy has invested $112.5 million ...

  6. List of wave power stations - Wikipedia

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    Pico Wave Power Plant [20] Portugal: 0.4: Oscillating water column: 2010 Runde Demo Site [21] Norway: 0.1: Oscillating water column: 2017 SDE Sea Waves Power Plant [22] Israel: 0.04: Oscillating wave surge converter: 2009 SINN Power wave energy converter [23]

  7. Pelamis Wave Energy Converter - Wikipedia

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    Pelamis Wave Power tested their first full-scale prototype at the Billia Croo wave test site at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland between 2004 and 2007. The machine, which was rated at 750 kW, was the world's first offshore wave power machine to generate electricity into the grid system.

  8. Static VAR compensator - Wikipedia

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    In Electrical Engineering, a static VAR compensator (SVC) is a set of electrical devices for providing fast-acting reactive power on high-voltage electricity transmission networks. [1] [2] SVCs are part of the flexible AC transmission system [3] [4] device family, regulating voltage, power factor, harmonics and stabilizing the system. A static ...

  9. Wave power in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Ocean Power Technologies is developing a commercial wave park on the west coast of the United States located 2.5 miles offshore near Reedsport, Oregon. The first phase of this project is for ten power generation systems (buoys), or 1.5 megawatts.