Abstract
In recent years, with the consolidation of offshore wind technology and the progress carried out for wave energy technology, the option of co-locate both technologies at the same marine area has arisen. Co-located projects are a combined solution to tackle the shared challenge of reducing technology costs or a more sustainable use of the natural resources. In particular, this paper deals with the co-location of Wave Energy Conversion (WEC) technologies into a conventional offshore wind farm. More specifically, an overtopping type of WEC technology was considered in this work to study the effects of its co-location with a conventional offshore wind park.
Highlights
Wave and offshore wind energy are both part of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) family which has a strong potential for development (Bahaj, 2011; Iglesias and Carballo, 2009) and is called to play key role in the EU energy policy, as identified by, e.g. the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan)
The aim of the present paper is to introduce the singularities of integrating wave energy into a conventional offshore wind farm, and in particular proses a case study where a hybrid array is considered in order to understand the effects of this co-location for both energies
This baseline scenario allows the definition of how the near shore area would be affected for a conventional offshore wind farm and to compare with the co-located farm
Summary
Wave and offshore wind energy are both part of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) family which has a strong potential for development (Bahaj, 2011; Iglesias and Carballo, 2009) and is called to play key role in the EU energy policy, as identified by, e.g. the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan). The industry has established, as a target for 2050, an installed capacity of 188 GW and 460 GW for ocean energy (wave and tidal) and offshore wind, respectively (EU-OEA, 2010; Moccia et al, 2011). Sharing the same hostile marine environment, wave and offshore wind energies face similar challenges. Their level of technological development is not the same. Whereas offshore wind is a proven technology, with 3.8GW of installed capacity in Europe and employing 35,000 people directly and indirectly at the end of 2011 (EWEA, 2012), wave energy – as well as floating offshore wind energy – is still at an early stage of development
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