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Project Code [21/FFP-A/8997]
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Project title
Economic wave energy through technical innovation (SeaChange)
Primary Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
n/a
Lead Organisation
Maynooth University (NUIM)
Project Abstract
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 uneconomic in relation to other renewable, and non-renewable, energy forms. This 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 re-accelerate the technical and commercial development of wave power.
Grant Approved
�1,074,212.67
Research Theme
Climate Solutions, Transition Management and Opportunities
Initial Projected Completion Date
30/11/2027