Abstract
The global pursuit of sustainable energy sources has driven innovation in the renewable energy sector, with a particular focus on harnessing the power of the waves. The earth's vast expanse of coastlines provides an abundant source of wave energy that may be harnessed to provide renewable electricity. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, waves could produce twice the amount of electricity that the world produced at the time of the report (Edenhofer, O. et al, 2011). The potential global energy production from waves is estimated at 29,500 TWh of electricity (Rusu, E., Onea, F., 2018).
There are two main types of wave power plants: offshore and onshore (or nearshore). Offshore wave power stations are located and harnessing energy in deep waters, frequently more than 2 miles from shore, while onshore installations are located on shorelines or near them. Among these endeavors, Eco Wave Power has gained significant real conditions and experience in the generation of clean electricity from the power of the onshore and nearshore waves. This paper focuses on an in-depth overview of the Eco Wave Power onshore and nearshore wave energy generation technology and will then continue to discuss the formulas used by Eco Wave Power for determining the energy generation potential in different sites around the world.
Next, we will provide an overview of our past, current, and future projects, which will include a power matrix and detailed analysis for our real-conditions site in Gibraltar (where we have operated from 2016 to 2022), and provide information from our site in Jaffa Port, Israel (which was grid connected in August 2023). Finally, we will compare the results from our past and current sites to energy production forecasts for the state of California, and for all the United States (including heatmaps and pointing out selected sites in these territories). The goal of this paper will be to show the viability of wave energy in the state of California, and in the United States, while pointing to specific sites within these territories.