A methodology for production and cost assessment of a farm of wave energy converters

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3402-3416

  Beels, Charlotte ^a   Troch, Peter ^a   Kofoed, Jens Peter ^b   Frigaard, Peter ^b   Vindahl Kringelum, Jon ^c   Carsten Kromann, Peter ^c   Heyman Donovan, Martin ^c   De Rouck, Julien ^a   De Backer, Griet ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cost; Farm; Power production; Wave Dragon; Wave energy

Indexed keywords

CABLE COSTS; COST ASSESSMENT; HYDROTURBINES; LAY-OUT; LOW COSTS; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MILD-SLOPE EQUATIONS; NEARSHORES; NORTH SEA; OVERTOPPED WAVES; POWER PRODUCTION; SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; TIME WINDOWS; TIME-DEPENDENT; WATER DRAINS; WATER VOLUMES; WAVE DRAGON; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS; WIND FARM;

CABLES; CLIMATE MODELS; COSTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RATING; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEGRAPH; TURBINES; WATER WAVES; WAVE POWER; WIND POWER;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INSTALLATION; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; OVERTOPPING; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SUBMARINE CABLE; WAVE CLIMATE; WAVE ENERGY; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 79960161976     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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