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

Milad Shadman, Corbiniano Silva, Daiane Faller, Zhijia Wu, Luiz Paulo de Freitas Assad, Luiz Landau, Carlos Levi and Segen F. Estefen
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Milad Shadman: Ocean Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil
Corbiniano Silva: Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-907, Brazil
Daiane Faller: Center for Global Sea Level Change (CSLC), New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi PO Box 129188, UAE
Zhijia Wu: Ocean Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil
Luiz Paulo de Freitas Assad: Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-907, Brazil
Luiz Landau: Civil Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-907, Brazil
Carlos Levi: Ocean Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil
Segen F. Estefen: Ocean Engineering Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-914, Brazil

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 19, 1-37

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: ocean renewable energy; ocean renewable technologies; ocean source potential; Brazilian ocean energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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