WavEnergy
Description
Regional developing plan for the use of the Atlantic´s swell energy
Financed by
INTERREG IIIB Atlantic space 2000-2006
Coordinated by
Participants
- Equipo Estable I+D INGEMAR
- Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables
- Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife
- Ecole d´Ingénieurs en Génie des Systèmes Industriels (EIGSI)
- WAVEGEN
Abstract
The main goal of the project is to develop a plan that defines the actions and priorities that have to be followed in order to use energy generated by waves. This plan will be apply in regions that would seriously like to bet for this type of energy. The project will pay special attention to harbours, now that they are infrastructures with big environmental impact associated and whose installations can be reused to build wave energy generation systems. To achieve this, a viability study method will be defined for the instillation of swell energy attracting systems in various harbours.
This methodology will be tested particularly in the Harbour of Granadilla, which is an expected project in the south of Tenerife. The project can be divided into two big blocks:
- Firstly, there is the making off the plan for the regions that decide to use wave energy. This plan will contain the following information: natural conditions necessary to generate wave energy, the advantages of this type of energy, financing modalities, methodology for the location´s definition of the energy generators, determining in the use of this type of energy, variety of existing devices, etc.
- Secondly, the pilot project will be developed and will allow the observation of the viability study method designed previously.
This pilot project will particularly study the viability of using the Granadilla´s Harbour infrastructure (whose building project is expected to start in Tenerife in the next two years), instilling wave energy generation systems in these infrastructures. Website of the project.