Economic wave energy through technical innovation (SeaChange) – Prof John Ringwood
Despite the vast global wave energy potential, and the need to diversify the range of renewable energy sources to provide dispatchable carbon-free energy, the current cost of wave energy makes it relatively uneconomic in relation to other renewable, and non-renewable, energy forms. This Research Ireland funded project proposes a combination of strategic technological improvements, with both broad applicability as well as specific device improvements, to effect a significant impact on the economic performance of wave energy systems and produce the step change needed to accelerate the technical and commercial development of wave power. Collaborators have been drawn from the University of Illinois (USA), CorPower Ocean AB (Sweden), National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL, USA) and TU Denmark.
This project is based in the Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER), in the Dept. of Electronic Engineering.
Recent publications from the project include:
- Said, H.A., Sarda, A.C. and Ringwood, J.V. Fault management in wave energy systems: Diagnosis, prognosis, and fault-tolerant control, Ocean Engineering
- Ziaei, A., Said, H.A. and Ringwood, J.V. Health sensitive control of wave energy converters: Possibilities and challenges, Proc. RENEW 2024
- Ringwood, J.V. Control co-design for wave energy systems, Applied Ocean Research
- Health-sensitive control of wave energy converters: A primer Amin Ziaei, Hafiz Ahsan Said, John V. Ringwood