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MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY: THE PORTUGUESE

APPROACH

ANTÓNIO SARMENTO

WAVEC SEMINAR 2014

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PORTUGAL

Very long coast facing

West

Medium-high wave and

wind resource

Well infrastructure coast

Mild climate for offshore

operations

Potential for 40% of

domestic electrical

consumption

Porto

Lisboa

F. Foz

Aveiro

V. Castelo

Peniche

Setubal

Sines

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Hs > 8 m Hmax > 18 m

JANUARY 19TH, 2013

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Capacity Building

1978: R&D starts

Infra-structure (Demo plant & offshore test site)

WavEC Offshore Renewables

Supply chain development

Legislation

Feed-in Tariff

250 MW Pilot Zone

250 MW target for 2020

Maritime Spatial Planning

EC Ocean Energy Forum

Project attraction

2001: 2MW AWS prototype sea trials

2007: 3 Pelamis wave farm sea trials

2010: Waveroller prototype

2011: Wind Float prototype sea trials

2013: Kymanos large scale lab tests

2014: NER 300 WindFloat & Waveroller projects:

Internationalization

30+ EU projects

Leading OES / IEA

Co-Founder EU - OEA

Rendering Services by WavEC internationally

KIC InnoEnergy

Proposal to ICE - Chili

The Portuguese Approach

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1978: R&D at IST (Engineering School /

Lisbon University)

1983: R&D at LNEG (Nat. Lab Energy &

Geology)

1999: 500 kW demo wave plant

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The Portuguese story

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1999: European Wave Energy Atlas

2000: Creation of Ocean Energy Systems

(OES/IEA) led by LNEG and assisted by WavEC

2000: 1st World Feed-in Tariff for Wave Energy

2001: Creation of 4 MW Aguçadoura Test Site

for marine energy

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The Portuguese story

• 4 miles offshore

• 45 m water depth

• 3 berths

• 4 MW electrical connection to shore

• Onshore monitoring & electrical

station

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2003: WavEC – Offshore Renewables

2004: AWS demo project at Aguçadoura

Test site

The Portuguese story

WavEC – Offshore Renewables

WavEC – Offshore Renewables

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2007: European Association for

Ocean Energy (Ocean Energy

Europe)

2005: Foz do Douro Breakwater

wave plant

The Portuguese story

WavEC – Offshore Renewables

WavEC – Offshore Renewables

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2008: Pelamis 3 farm units at

Aguçadoura Test site

The Portuguese story

WavEC – Offshore Renewables

Portugal – 2008

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2008: Pilot Zone for Wave Energy

The Portuguese story

22 km

18,3 km

14,9 km

20 km E

Portugal

– 400 km2 offshore area (30m to 90 m water depth)

– Up to 250 MW of electrical connection (18 MW; 80 MW; 250 MW)

– Simplified licensing

– Managed by REN (PT TSO)

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2008: Martifer wave energy concept

2008: IST/WavEC wave energy

concept

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WavEC – Offshore Renewables

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2010: WaveRoller wave energy

prototype sea trials

2014: NER300 5 MW project

2014

The Portuguese story

WavEC – Offshore Renewables

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2011: WindFloat prototype

2013: NER 300 25 MW Atlantic Project

2014

The Portuguese story

WavEC – Offshore Renewables

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2011: Industry road-map

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2012: POEM – Maritime Spatial

Planning

The Portuguese story

WavEC – Offshore Renewables

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Research Institutions

WAVEC OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

• International recognition since 2013

• Our goal: Development of offshore

renewables technology and market

• Our Associates:

Energy companies

Engineering companies and developers

• Wave energy

• Marine currents

• Tidal energy

• Salinity gradient

• Offshore wind

• Marine biomass

• Thermal gradient

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KEEPING TRACK OF MULTIPLE R&D PROJECTS

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Road-map

CORES

EQUIMAR

WAVETRAIN2

ORECCA

WAVEPORT

SURGE

AquaRET2

SOWFIA

FAME

DEMOWFLOAT

KIC Innoenergy Project OTS

WEAM

MARINET

TROPOS

OTEO

SI Ocean

Atlantic Power Cluster

• A broad spectrum of activities

• More then 100 international partners

• Added value for the development of new products and new services

EU funded projects

National funding

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PROVIDING SERVICES AROUND THE WORLD

Funded R&D projects

70%

Services 24%

Fees 6%

ICE (Costa Rica utility)

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2013: Marine resource assessment – ICE (Costa Rica

utility)

2013: Marine energy vision and tenders for demo wave

and tidal projects – Chile Ministry of Energy

2008: 10 M£ Saltire Prize – Scottish Government

2007: Pilot Zone legislation – Portuguese Government

Example of services provided by

WaVEC

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Companies:

Strategic analysis (Technology and Market): o Gas Natural Fenosa (SP); Iberdrola (SP); EDP (PT), Galp (PT)

Technical support:

o Due Diligences: Iberdrola (SP) , GALP (PT) …

o Concept development (Wedge (SP), Sandekia (SP),

Martifer (PT), AWS (UK) ….

o Cost and economic models

o Numerical and Experimental simulation: Corpower (S),

Wavegen (UK), AWS (NL), MPT (AUS), PPP (USA)

o Field Work: EDP (PT)

Example of services provided by

WaVEC

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Portugal

Has a significant experience in wave energy

Has a wide cluster in wave energy from R&D to

Industry

Can offer you:

o An investment opportunity

o Strategic support

o Technological support

In collaboration with WavEC and its associates

Conclusion

21 7/2/2014 – 1ST INDIA-PT WORKSHOP ON RENEWABLE ENERGY

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