Selection of design power of wave energy converters based on wave basin experiments

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3124-3132

  Martinelli, Luca ^a,b   Zanuttigh, Barbara ^b   Kofoed, Jens Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Capacity factor; Cost benefit; Design; Statistics; Wave power

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY FACTORS; CHARACTERISATION; COST BENEFIT; DESIGN CAPACITY; ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS; ELECTRICAL LOSS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; FLOATING WAVES; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SCALE EFFECTS; WAVE BASINS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS;

AVAILABILITY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DESIGN; INVESTMENTS; LOSS PREVENTION; WAVE POWER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESIGN; POWER GENERATION; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 79957848174     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.03.021     Document Type: Article

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