Sweden's Eco Wave Power and Turkey's Oren Ordu Eneas have announced the construction of the world's largest wave
The construction cost will be about $150 million.The installation to convert sea wave energy into electricity will consist of a fixed modular array of steel floats hinged to arms with pistons. The latter will pump the working fluid through an underwater hose line to an onshore generator that produces sustainable energy.
The project will be completed in severalstages. At the first stage, a pilot plant with a capacity of 4 MW will be created in the port of Ordu, and based on the results of the test run and pilot operation, the remaining modules will be added.
Despite the great interest in the waveenergy industry, so far this technology has not found active application. The world's first commercial wave device, Islay LIMPET, was installed on the coast of Islay in Scotland and connected to the UK national grid back in 2000. And in 2008, the first experimental wave farm with several generators was opened in Portugal in the Agusadura Wave Park. Its peak power is 2.25 MW.
Despite the low existing share of waveenergy in total production, the US Energy Information Administration estimates the theoretical annual wave potential off the coast of the state at 2.64 trillion kWh, or about 64% of total US energy production in 2021.
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On the cover: one of the installations of a wave power plant in Portugal. Image: P123, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons