Although wave energy prototypes have been proposed for more than 100 years, they have
still not reached full commercialisation. The reasons for this are varied, but include the …

Ocean energy technologies are in their developmental stages, like other renewable energy
sources. To be useable in the energy market, most components of wave energy devices …

Assessments of global wave power have been receiving increasing attention currently;
however, a characterization of the global resources that holistically consider the different …

Ocean energy has many forms, encompassing tides, surface waves, ocean circulation,
salinity and thermal gradients. This paper will considers two of these, namely those found in …

Integrating variable and non-dispatchable renewable power generation into existing power
systems will have consequences for their operation and future expansion. These impacts …

In this paper we present a high resolution assessment of the wave energy resources in the
Mediterranean. The energy resources are evaluated through of a numerical simulation …

The main objectives of the present work are to review the global wave energy resources
according to the most recent datasets available, to identify the locations with the worldwide …

A state-of-the-art, in terms of spatio-temporal resolution (about 10 km and on a hourly basis)
and temporal span (35 years), wave hindcast is exploited to update existing assessments of …

Motivated by the fact that in isolated island environments the extraction of the renewable
energy becomes an issue of increasing importance, the objective of the present work is to …

The main concern when utilizing renewable energy resources is their intermittency and
variability. One way to deal with this shortcoming is to harvest energy from complementary …