Ocean Renewable Energy Potential, Technology, and Deployments: A Case Study of Brazil

Energies

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Daiane Faller¹  Corbiniano Silva²  Luiz Paulo de Freitas Assad²  Luiz Landau²  Carlos Levi³  Segen F. Estefen³  Zhijia Wu³  Milad Shadman³ 

[1] Center for Global Sea Level Change (CSLC), New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi PO Box 129188, UAE;

[2] Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-907, Brazil;

[3] Ocean Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil;

关键词: ocean renewable energy;    ocean renewable technologies;    ocean source potential;    brazilian ocean energy;   

DOI  :  10.3390/en12193658

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This study, firstly, provides an up-to-date global review of the potential, technologies, prototypes, installed capacities, and projects related to ocean renewable energy including wave, tidal, and thermal, and salinity gradient sources. Secondly, as a case study, we present a preliminary assessment of the wave, ocean current, and thermal gradient sources along the Brazilian coastline. The global status of the technological maturity of the projects, their different stages of development, and the current global installed capacity for different sources indicate the most promising technologies considering the trend of global interest. In Brazil, despite the extensive coastline and the fact that almost 82% of the Brazilian electricity matrix is renewable, ocean renewable energy resources are still unexplored. The results, using oceanographic fields produced by numerical models, show the significant potential of ocean thermal and wave energy sources in the northern and southern regions of the Brazilian coast, which could contribute as complementary supply sources in the national electricity matrix.

【 授权许可】

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