Thesis for the degree of bachelor Survey of Wave Energy and matured Wave Energy Technology Tuva Garbom Sørbotten May 2020 Oppgavens tittel: Target date: 22.05.20 Undersøkelse av Bølgekraft og modnet Updated target date: 29.05.20 Bølgekraftteknologi Project title: Number of pages: 46 Survey of Wave Energy and matured Number of appendices: 9 Wave Energy Technology Participants: Bachelor's degree of Renewable En- ergy Tuva Garbom Sørbotten Faculty of Engineering Department of Energy and Process Engi- neering Main supervisor: Co supervisor: H˚avard Karoliussen Johannes Falnes
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[email protected] 90973528 Project number: Supervisor substitute: FEN3001-2004 Alejandro Oyarce Barnett
[email protected] Preface This bachelor concludes my enrollment at the engineering bachelor Renewable Energy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Renewable Energy is a part of the Faculty of Engineering and the Department of Energy and Process Engineering. This bachelor offered the opportunity for me to delve into a subject which I find most in- teresting - the energy potential of the oceans. My main supervisor, H˚avard Karoliussen, made a great effort in making it possible for me to write about this subject. I have always found it interesting how such a big part of our planet is covered by water, yet there are no big commercialised way of exploiting the energy it possesses. This opened my eyes for wave energy, and this bachelor was an opportunity to look for some answers. The purpose of this bachelor were to investigate how mature the current wave energy tech- nologies were, and if they were or could be competitive with integrated energy sources.