wave energy Articles
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CETO 6 - Wave Hub (UK) Project
Carnegie views WaveHub as a world leading facility for demonstration of WEC technology. Carnegie’s UK based subsidiary, CETO Wave Energy UK (CWE (UK) and Wave Hub Limited have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to capture Carnegie’s work delivered to date at Wave Hub and to progress future development for a CETO array at WaveHub. The collaboration activities will focus ...
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CETO 6 - Albany (WA) Project
The Albany Wave Energy Project commenced in 2017 and intended to build, deploy and operate a prototype CETO 6 Unit. The Western Australian Government committed $15.75m in funding which was subsequently withdrawn and the project has therefore ceased. Despite this, valuable work was done on developing one of the world’s most attractive sites for wave energy. Vessel conducting the ...
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A novel particle swarm optimisation self-regulating stand-alone wave energy conversion scheme
The paper presents a novel stabilisation scheme system for a wave energy converter (WEC) using permanent magnet linear generator (PMLG) connected to a six-pulse diode rectifier. The proposed controller of WEC-battery renewable energy system is based on multi-objective particle swarm optimisation (MOPSO) technique. The optimisation algorithm is implemented to control a novel low cost dynamic AC ...
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Power control strategy for grid connected permanent magnet synchronous generator of a distributed generation unit
This paper describes the studies on the operation and control of a variable speed wave energy conversion system. The wave energy conversion system considered is oscillating–water–column (OWC) based Wells turbine driven permanent magnet synchronous generator connected to the grid by means of fully controlled frequency converter. In such systems primary aim is to achieve a low distortion, high ...
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A binary ACO for controlling all–electric power take off system in wave energy converters
This paper describes a metaheuristic algorithm for controlling all–electric power take off (PTO) system of wave energy converters. It provides optimal parameter values to the controller following the instantaneously changing sea state. The output of the algorithm is used to tune the electrical control systems in the PTO system in order to provide sufficient time for the point absorber to achieve ...
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Supporting wave and tidal energy in the UK - an analysis of UK Policy 2000-2009
In order to stimulate UK based marine energy technology developers, the UK Government launched the Marine Renewables Proving Fund (MRPF) in 2009. This instrument was designed to bridge the gap between early-stage research funding and the recently-criticised Marine Renewables Deployment Fund (MRDF). This paper develops an analysis framework for policy instruments designed to support technology ...
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Saipem sign commitment to deploy Wello?s new Penguin Wave energy converter.
The Wello team have been in long lasting discussions with a world leader in engineering activities and in the development of major energy and infrastructure projects, Saipem (https://www.saipem.com/en). On Friday 25th October, Wello received a commitment from Saipem for taking the full responsibility for the deployment and operation of Penguin WEC in the Basque country. This commitment will ...
By Wello Oy
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Marine energy innovation in the UK energy system: financial capital, social capital and interactive learning
Innovation activity in marine energy (wave and tidal stream) has been catalysed by a series of recent UK policy initiatives. However, the wider UK energy system remains substantially oriented to market competition and efficiency. As a result, tensions have emerged between recent R&D activity (especially interactive and collaborative learning) and its economic and institutional context. Drawing on ...
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Simulation-based evaluation of tidal current power output characteristics
Tidal current is considered to be one of the promising alternative green energy resources. This paper introduces a simulation based methodology to evaluate tidal current power output characteristics, including capacity factor, and power production variability patterns. Power variability analysis is crucial to grid integration systems design. The proposed methodology is applied to the well known ...
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Renewable energy from the ocean and tides: A viable renewable energy resource in search of a suitable regulatory framework
Ocean energy technology involves a range of engineering technologies that are able to obtain energy from the ocean using a variety of conversion mechanisms. Over the past few years there has been significant progress towards the development of commercial scale operations of ocean energy, especially hydrokinetic energy (where the energy of ocean (or fluvial) currents and tides is captured by ...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory Spotlights SeaRAY Preparations
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is one of C-Power’s key partners advancing the SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS) to the start of its demonstration at the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site in Hawaii this fall. With the nacelle of the SeaRAY visiting NREL’s Flatirons campus in Colorado for validation and verification testing, the lab wrote a spotlight ...
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Garden Island Microgrid (WA) Project
The Garden Island Microgrid is an integrated renewable microgrid project including a connection to Carnegie’s wave energy site directly offshore from the island. The 2 MW of solar and associated battery system provide clean, reliable energy to Australia’s largest naval base. Customer : Department of Defence Project Partners: Department of Defence, Western Power and the Australian ...
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Key issues of tidal energy and factors affecting it globally with civil structures
This paper focus on some of the key challenges to be met in the development of marine energy, it present prototype form to being a widely deployed contributor to future energy supply of the world. Large-scale wave and tidal current prototypes have been demonstrated around the world, but marine renewable energy technology is still 10-15 years behind that of wind energy. However, having started ...
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An efficient hybrid wave/photovoltaic scheme for energy supply in remote areas
This paper presents the efficient utilisation of hybrid photovoltaic/wave energy system for desalination water pumping and supplying the local AC and DC loads. The novel hybrid system comprises eight key parts. The PV array and wave energy permanent magnet linear generator (PMLG) as energy sources, novel AC side modulated power filter compensator (MPFC), AC-DC converter, novel DC side green plug ...
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Ocean exergy and energy conversion systems
Oceans store energy in the form of currents, waves, tides, heat and salinity that can help to alleviate worldwide demand for power and the global climate change threat. They also store a considerable amount of an isotope of hydrogen (deuterium) which takes part in the most promising fusion reactions. Exergy analysis can be applied to evaluate the work potential (extractable) of a resource. This ...
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Mauritian Wave and Microgrid Project
Carnegie was contracted to deliver a renewable energy roadmap for Mauritius. Customer : Mauritian Government Project Partner : Australian Government, Mauritian Research Council Location : Mauritius and the neighbouring island of Rodrigues Features: The project scope included: a technical, commercial and financial feasibility of high penetration renewable energy an ...
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CETO Next Generation Project
Carnegie is undertaking a new development project to significantly improve the performance and reduce the cost of the CETO technology. New innovations coupled with a digital development approach is providing the opportunity to rapidly iterate the design like never before. New tools and technologies are disrupting many industries and Carnegie sees wave energy and its technology in an ...
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Ocean Power connects wave energy system to grid
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Pennington, NJ) announced that it has achieved what it claims to be the first-ever connection of a wave-energy system to the power grid in the United States. Ocean Power’s PB40 Powerbuoy system is now delivering power to the grid at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii on the island of Oahu. The Powerbuoy unit, which was installed in December 2009 at a depth of ...
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Research and development in ocean energy technologies
The volatile fuel prices for electricity generation, elevated concerns about global warming and energy security has prompted countries to look for alternative energy sources. One of the alternative energy sources is ocean energy. Currently, there is few ocean energy technologies that are commercially available to harness electrical energy from ocean despite the fact that ocean covers more than ...
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A novel FACTS dynamic stabilisation scheme for stand-alone tidal energy conversion systems
Renewable abundant ocean kinetic energy has become increasingly popular as a consequence of strong ecological viable concerns and economical energy solutions in remote island communities. However, the integration of dispersed renewable tidal energy will pose a greater challenge to the power quality of distribution networks in remote areas due to fluctuation of the tidal stream velocity. The paper ...
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