Blue Energy Potential Analysis in the Mediterranean

The major target of this study is to determine the hybrid energy potential, as a renewable energy source, in the Eastern Mediterranean region. The most important motivation of this study is that the Eastern Mediterranean zone has a significant hydrocarbon potential in addition to its geopolitical value. Hence, the hydrocarbon platforms in the region constitute the main framework of this novel research. Wind, solar and wave energy potentials and cost estimation of 6 selected locations in the Eastern Mediterranean are analyzed. The analysis is based on the needs of the platforms, i.e. if the energy is produced more than the needs of the platforms, the hydrogen is produced by electrolysis. The cost estimation of the system is carried out by assuming not only the situation of the produced hydrogen but also the transportation of the hydrogen to the mainland. According the results of the analyzes, it has been shown that the Eastern Mediterranean has a very high wind, solar, and wave energy potential due to the fact that Crete and Rhodes Islands form a natural strait. As a conclusion different transmission scenarios of the hydrogen to the mainland shows that the energy required by the platforms can be provided by renewable energy sources, regardless of their power.

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“…( 4). There are two important components that determine the value of wave energy [41]. These are the wave height and the wave period value.…”

Section: Wave Energy Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Türkiye's Offshore Hybrid Energy Potential and Cost Estimation in the Eastern Mediterranean

Çelikdemir

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2023

Türk Doğa Ve Fen Dergisi

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“…According to European Commission communications on Blue Energy (EC, 2012;EC, 2014), offshore wind and marine technologies can generate electricity and contribute towards sustainable development. In fact, technological developments can positively impact the supply of sustainable electricity, even though average potentials in the Mediterranean Sea are lower than those found in the North Sea and the oceans (Golfetti et al, 2018;Nikolaidis et al, 2019). Research into the exploitation of marine energy has produced significant advances which have the potential to expedite the process of ecological transition (Pisacane et al, 2018) but there are still issues that need to be explored (Golfetti et al, 2018).…”

Section: Seascape and Blue Energymentioning

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On marine wind power expressiveness: Not just an issue of visual impact

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Technological research for the exploitation of marine energy has produced significant advances which promise to expedite the process of transitioning to renewable resources. However, many issues hinder the effective exploitation of marine energy: among these are cultural concerns regarding the visual impacts of these technologies used. Assuming that “protecting” means preserving without banning evolutive changes, seascape protection and ecological transition are not alternatives because both converge toward sustainability. Even so, scientific concepts, technical practices, social perceptions, and the decisions and actions associated with them raise contradictions and conflicts. Within the complex challenge of ecological transition, clean energy availability arises as a necessary and imperative condition. This article proposes a critical landscape design perspective which focuses on the importance of understanding and expressing contemporaneity through the changes it brings to habitats and life. A focus on the visual impact of marine wind turbine is proposed as an example for a general discussion on technical and social perceptions in a context of both cultural and spatial transition. Site-specific critical visions have to be imagined and discussed to produce not business as usual transformations. This article aims to show that decisions predominantly influenced by issues of visual impact do not adequately express the cultural dimension of ecological transition.

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“…A recent assessment of the energy potential in the Mediterranean Sea, with focus on coastal areas, has been given by Nikolaidis et al (2019), who presented results of the Interreg MED project Maestrale (https://maestrale.interregmed.eu). It was found that the most promising fonts are the offshore wind energy and the wave energy, which can be extracted both offshore, using floating devices (see, e.g., Pisacane et al, 2018, and references therein), and on shore, with devices embedded in ports or wave-breakers (e. g., Barbarelli et al, 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

MITO: A new operational model for the forecasting of the Mediterranean sea circulation

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Availability of detailed short-term forecasts of the ocean main characteristics (circulation and waves) is essential for a correct management of the human activities insisting on coastal areas. These activities include the extraction of renewable energy, which has developed in recent years, and will play an important role in the context of future blue growth. The present work describes the implementation of a new ocean operational system, named MITO, that provides daily 5 days forecasts of the Mediterranean Sea circulation. Distinctive features of this system are the inclusion of the main effects of the tidal forcing, both local and propagating from the Atlantic, and the high spatial detail. The horizontal resolution is of 1/48° (about 2 km) in most of the computational domain, and is smoothly increased (down to few hundred meters) in key passages, such as the Gibraltar Strait and the Turkish Straits, to correctly resolve the complex local dynamics. Initial and boundary conditions for MITO are taken from the reference European operation model of Copernicus, which covers the Mediterranean Sea with a uniform resolution of 1/24°. A thorough validation of the new system is performed, analyzing the forecasts of the year 2020, whose results are compared with in situ and remote observational data (sea surface temperature, altimeter data, temperature and salinity profiles by floats, tide-gauge measurements, available through the Copernicus portal) using the same large-scale metrics applied in the validation of the Copernicus operational model. MITO results are generally found in very good agreement with the observations, despite the fact that the model does not make explicit use of data assimilation. We also give examples of the capability of the model to correctly describe complex local mesoscale dynamics, and point out aspects that need to be improved, which will be addressed in a future upgrade of the operational implementation.

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Blue Energy Potential Analysis in the Mediterranean

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Türkiye's Offshore Hybrid Energy Potential and Cost Estimation in the Eastern Mediterranean

Türkiye's Offshore Hybrid Energy Potential and Cost Estimation in the Eastern Mediterranean

On marine wind power expressiveness: Not just an issue of visual impact

MITO: A new operational model for the forecasting of the Mediterranean sea circulation

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