RT Journal Article
T1 Wave farm planning through high-resolution resource and performance characterization
A1 Carballo, Rodrigo
A1 Areán, Néstor
A1 López, Iván
A1 Castro Ponte, Alberte
A1 López, Mario
A1 Álvarez, Miguel
A1 Iglesias, Gregorio
K1 Wave energy
K1 Buoy-type WECs
K1 ICZM
K1 Intra-annual performance
AB Wave farm planning in a coastal region should lead to the selection of: i) the type of technology of wave energy converter (WEC) providing the highest performance at specific sites and ii) the sites for wave farm operation allowing an integrated coastal zone management (ICZM). On these bases, the deployment of a wave farm should be based on an accurate analysis of the performance of different WECs at coastal locations where wave energy exploitation does not interfere with other coastal uses, and the environmental impact is minimised (or positive, e.g. allowing coastal protection). With this in view, in this piece of research the intra-annual performance of various WECs of the same type (buoy-type) is computed at different locations in NW Spain allowing an ICZM perspective. For this purpose, the intra-annual version of WEDGE-p® (Wave Energy Diagram Generator – performance) tool is implemented. The results show that, as opposed to previous analysis on WECs with different principle of operation, the level of performance of buoy-type WECs at specific locations may present strong similarities. In this case, an accurate computation of different performance parameters along with their joint analysis emerge as a prerequisite for an informed decision-making.
PB Elsevier
SN 0960-1481
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32242
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/32242
LA eng
NO R. Carballo, N. Arean, M. Álvarez, I. López, A. Castro, M. López, G. Iglesias, Wave farm planning through high-resolution resource and performance characterization, Renewable Energy, Volume 135, 2019, Pages 1097-1107, ISSN 0960-1481, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.12.081.
NO WEDGE-p® tool is the result of an extensive work developed in the framework of several research projects supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation: Evaluación de los Recursos Energéticos Renovables (Ref. DPI2009-14546-CO2-02), Xunta de Galicia: Consolidación e estruturación – 2016 CIGEO (Ref ED431B 2019/30), Fundación Iberdrola: Online Application and High Resolution Management System for the Exploitation of the Wave Energy Resource in the Atlantic Region of Europe, and Fundación Barrié: Development of a Geospatial Database for the Exploitation of the Wave Energy Resource along the Galician Coast. During this work I. López was supported by the postdoctoral grant ED481B 2016/125-0 of the ‘Programa de Axudas á etapa posdoutoral da Xunta de Galicia’. The authors are grateful to Puertos del Estado for providing the wave data, and to Instituto Español de Oceanográfía (IEO) and Instituto Técnolóxico para o Control do Medio Mariño de Galicia (Intecmar) for the ocean uses and environmental data.
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026