The purpose of this project is to carry out a technical and economic analysis of the predictability of the theoretical and measured power production of selected wave energy technologies, working alone and in combinations with offshore wind energy. The analysis will be carried out in normal and storm operating conditions and assuming offshore wind and wave farms in the 100MW size.
The simultaneous and co-located forecast and measured wave parameters at Hanstholm site, Denmark, during a non-continuous autumn and winter 3-month period, along with the power matrices of the selected wave technologies, will form the basis of the study. The wave converters are: Pelamis, an articulated pitching and heaving device, Wave Dragon, an overtopping floating technology, and Wavestar, a multi-point absorber.
Wave power predictability is of great importance when assessing how accurate the bids of wave energy into the day-ahead market will be and when evaluating the expected balancing costs. Therefore, this study is ultimately a research project examining part of the costs for wave energy electricity generation.
Due to the interest of this topic to Transmission System Operators, Energinet Denmark has been involved within the first phase of this project. The proposed project is the natural continuation of it.