Economic factors and incentives for ocean wave energy conversion

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 547-554

  Vining, Jennifer G ^a   Muetze, Annette ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ocean renewable energy; Wave energy conversion

Indexed keywords

CURRENT ENERGIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMIC MODELS; ELECTRIC ENERGIES; INCENTIVE PROGRAMS; OCEAN ENERGIES; OCEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY; OCEAN-WAVE ENERGIES; RENEWABLES; WAVE ENERGIES;

ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY POLICY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; WATER WAVES; WAVE POWER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 64049090428     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2009.2013539     Document Type: Article

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