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Bento, A. R., Martinho, P., and Guedes Soares, C., Modelling Wave Energy Resources for UK’s Southwest Coast, Oceans 2011; Santander, Spain. 2011.
Wave energy is considered to provide a clean source of renewable energy, with limited negative environmental impacts, in particular, it is seen as a large source of energy not involving large CO2 emissions. Is a highly concentrated energy source with a smaller hourly and day-to-day variation and, conveniently, the seasonal variation of wave power closely follows the trend for electricity consumption in Western Europe. Persistent efforts in R&D and the experience accumulated during the past years have constantly improved the performance of wave power techniques and have led today to bringing wave energy closer to commercial exploitation than ever before [1]. A growing number of developers are now reviewing their options for prototype and commercial development of their technologies around the world and at least 5 large scale wave energy test sites are being planed, or under development in Europe, from south of Portugal to the north of Scotland For UK waters, the majority of wave energy potential is located on the west coast of the British Isles, with the areas of highest potential density being off Cornwall, Pembrokeshire, and the Outer Hebrides. In the waters around Wales, almost the entire commercially exploitable wave energy resource lies off the Pembrokeshire coast [2].
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