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Rusu, L. and Guedes Soares, C. (2012), Wave Energy Assessments in the Azores Islands, Renewable Energy, Vol. 45, pp. 183-196. ISSN: 0960-1481.
Motivated by the fact that in isolated island environments the extraction of the renewable energy becomes an issue of increasing importance, the objective of the present work is to evaluate the wave energy patterns in the Archipelago of Azores. An analysis of the wave climate in the target area is first carried out considering both remotely sensed and historical data. As a further step, a wave prediction system based on spectral wave models was implemented and validated against satellite data in the coastal environment of the archipelago. Using the above wave modeling system, the spatial distribution of the wave energy was evaluated considering relevant wave patterns for both winter and summer seasons. The results make apparent some significant peaks of wave energy that usually occur at the left edges of the islands. Scatter diagrams were designed for some of these locations found richer in wave energy. Using these diagrams and the PELAMIS power matrix, an evaluation is made for the average electric energy that would be provided in the nearshore locations targeted. The results show that the Archipelago of Azores has considerable resources of wave energy, some of them located in the immediate vicinity of the shore.
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