Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Exploitation—A Review
Over recent decades, the exploitation of wave energy resources has sparked a wide range of technologies dedicated to capturing the available power with maximum efficiency, reduced costs, and minimum environmental impacts. These different objectives are fundamental to guarantee the development of the...
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| description | Over recent decades, the exploitation of wave energy resources has sparked a wide range of technologies dedicated to capturing the available power with maximum efficiency, reduced costs, and minimum environmental impacts. These different objectives are fundamental to guarantee the development of the marine wave energy sector, but require also refined assessments of available resource and expected generated power to optimize devices designs and locations. We reviewed here the most recent resource characterizations starting from (i) investigations based on available observations (in situ and satellite) and hindcast databases to (ii) refined numerical simulations specifically dedicated to wave power assessments. After an overall description of formulations and energy metrics adopted in resource characterization, we exhibited the benefits, limitations and potential of the different methods discussing results obtained in the most energetic locations around the world. Particular attention was dedicated to uncertainties in the assessment of the available and expected powers associated with wave–climate temporal variability, physical processes (such as wave–current interactions), model implementation and energy extraction. This up-to-date review provided original methods complementing the standard technical specifications liable to feed advanced wave energy resource assessment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-45200b00b34f4faeb6391e648e5f8ed82023-11-20T13:22:08ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122020-09-018970510.3390/jmse8090705Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Exploitation—A ReviewNicolas Guillou0George Lavidas1Georges Chapalain2Laboratoire de Génie Côtier et Environnement (LGCE), Direction Eau Mer et Fleuves, Département Environnement et Risques, Cerema, 155 rue Pierre Bouguer Technopôle Brest-Iroise, BP 5, 29280 Plouzané, FranceFaculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The NetherlandsLaboratoire de Génie Côtier et Environnement (LGCE), Direction Eau Mer et Fleuves, Département Environnement et Risques, Cerema, 155 rue Pierre Bouguer Technopôle Brest-Iroise, BP 5, 29280 Plouzané, FranceOver recent decades, the exploitation of wave energy resources has sparked a wide range of technologies dedicated to capturing the available power with maximum efficiency, reduced costs, and minimum environmental impacts. These different objectives are fundamental to guarantee the development of the marine wave energy sector, but require also refined assessments of available resource and expected generated power to optimize devices designs and locations. We reviewed here the most recent resource characterizations starting from (i) investigations based on available observations (in situ and satellite) and hindcast databases to (ii) refined numerical simulations specifically dedicated to wave power assessments. After an overall description of formulations and energy metrics adopted in resource characterization, we exhibited the benefits, limitations and potential of the different methods discussing results obtained in the most energetic locations around the world. Particular attention was dedicated to uncertainties in the assessment of the available and expected powers associated with wave–climate temporal variability, physical processes (such as wave–current interactions), model implementation and energy extraction. This up-to-date review provided original methods complementing the standard technical specifications liable to feed advanced wave energy resource assessment.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/9/705inter-annual and inter-seasonal variabilitywave–current interactionscoastal shelf seaswave energy metricsnumerical spectral wave modelswave energy converters |
| spellingShingle | Nicolas Guillou George Lavidas Georges Chapalain Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Exploitation—A Review Journal of Marine Science and Engineering inter-annual and inter-seasonal variability wave–current interactions coastal shelf seas wave energy metrics numerical spectral wave models wave energy converters |
| title | Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Exploitation—A Review |
| title_full | Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Exploitation—A Review |
| title_fullStr | Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Exploitation—A Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Exploitation—A Review |
| title_short | Wave Energy Resource Assessment for Exploitation—A Review |
| title_sort | wave energy resource assessment for exploitation a review |
| topic | inter-annual and inter-seasonal variability wave–current interactions coastal shelf seas wave energy metrics numerical spectral wave models wave energy converters |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/9/705 |
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