Document of bibliographic reference 366408

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Bibliographic resource

Type of document

Journal article

BibLvlCode

AS

Title

A scalable wave resource assessment methodology: application to U.S. waters

Abstract

Waves deliver large quantities of energy to populated coastlines around the world, and wave energy technology research and development has accelerated over the last two decades. Throughout this time national and regional resource assessments have utilized disparate methodologies, which can cause confusion and skepticism. In this work, we describe a theoretical wave resource assessment methodology that addresses many of the major areas of inconsistency and debate. Applying this revised methodology to U.S. waters, we find the theoretical U.S. wave energy resource to be 3300 TWh/yr, with region totals of 2000 TWh/yr in Alaska, 510 TWh/yr along the U.S. west coast, 380 TWh/yr in Hawaii, 290 TWh/yr along the east coast, 69 TWh/yr in the Gulf of Mexico, and 17 TWh/yr in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. We also find significant uncertainty in these estimates associated with the underlying model dataset, which emphasizes the importance of thorough model validation and calibration as well as quantifying uncertainty.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:001070832500001

Bibliographic citation

Kilcher, L.; García Medina, G.; Yang, Z. (2023). A scalable wave resource assessment methodology: application to U.S. waters. Renew. Energy 217: 119094. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.119094

Topic

Marine

Is peer reviewed

true