Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 12, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en12193658
Keywords
ocean renewable energy; ocean renewable technologies; ocean source potential; Brazilian ocean energy
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- CNPq, the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication/Brazil
- Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia-Energias Oceanicas e Fluviais (INEOF)
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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.
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