Today, I have just found a very interesting news about renewable energy. Concretely it talks about the released energy from waves.
The investigators team EOLO, from the University of the Basque Country, has developed a technique, to predict, several hours in advance, wave energy; a study that has been published in the journal “Ocean Engineering”.
The researcher Gabriel Ibarra, from the EOLO group, explained that marine energy has great potential; but there is still a long way to its massive use.
The first operating system, for exploiting marine energy, was placed in Portugal, in 2008.
In the Basque Country, it was opened a small system, in Mutriku, in 2011.
Despite the problem of intermittency, the energy of waves has an advantage over wind power, for example; it is easier to predict that an optimal swell than some appropriate wind gusts.
Therefore, as important, as having efficient prototypes for energy efficiency, it is how much energy the waves will bring, in a few hours. Knowing this information, you can better insert the energy, produced by waves on the grid.
The Eolo group has developed several models, to predict the amount of wave energy, to the Bay of Biscay, using an algorithm.
Aeolus models are based on a historical series of measurements, compared to each other the levels of wave energy, at a given time, and which are expected to within a few hours.
The measurement is performed by buoys, five of which are installed in the Bay of Biscay, three near the Galician coast and two in the open sea.
Well, I hope that you have liked this article.
Until my next post, kind regards,
Luis.
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