TY - JOUR
TI - Ocean Renewable Energy Potential, Technology, and Deployments: A Case Study of Brazil
AU - Shadman, M
AU - Silva, C
AU - Faller, D
AU - Wu, Z
AU - Assad, L
AU - Landau, L
AU - Levi, C
AU - Estefen, S
T2 - Energies
AB - 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.
DA - 2019/09//
PY - 2019
VL - 12
IS - 19
SP - 37
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/19/3658
DO - 10.3390/en12193658
LA - English
KW - Marine Energy
KW - OTEC
KW - Salinity Gradient
KW - Tidal
KW - Wave
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Social & Economic Data
ER -