Floating Offshore Wind Power: A Case Study for Concepción bay, Chile

Neira, Emanuel; Fuentes, Marcelo; Salgado, Fabricio; Jelves, Luciano

doi:10.1109/chilecon54041.2021.9702952

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“…Offshore energy research in Chile materialized in 41 scientific papers, started in 2008 with resource potential assessment of wave energy [61] but extended from 2014 to 2017 with the resource assessment of offshore wind [62][63][64][65], wave energy [66,67] and tidal [68,69], identifying, for example, places for a potential project for extracting offshore renewable energy. Since 2017, the trends in scientific publications in Chile have led to more applied research, for example, evaluating mathematically the behavior of different devices in the Chilean sea [70][71][72][73]. Since the creation of the Marine Energy Research and Innovation Center, MERIC, in 2015, special attention has been paid to the research lines pursued by this center.…”

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A Review of Offshore Renewable Energy in South America: Current Status and Future Perspectives

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This paper addresses the current status and future research and development perspectives associated with technologies to harness offshore renewable energy, including offshore wind, waves, tides, ocean currents, and thermal and salinity gradient, in South America (SA). It focuses on five countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay. At first, a comprehensive survey presents the number of scientific papers classified based on the resource to show the tendency and importance of such subjects in the academic community. Each country’s electricity matrix and grid connection are shown to understand the region’s renewable source participation situation. The potential of offshore renewable resources is addressed by considering the published technical papers in scientific journals. The main conflicts and synergies associated with ocean space utilization are presented by considering the exclusive economic zone of each country. The status of the regulatory frameworks to promote and development of offshore renewable energies is presented. Two sections are dedicated to presenting the active, decommissioned and planned projects, research groups and laboratory infrastructures to develop the technologies. The last section discusses the future perspectives on the development of this sector in SA. It is observed that SA, with more than 25,000 km of coastline, has a great potential for offshore renewable energy; however, so far, these resources have not been explored commercially. Larger investment in the sector, establishing an adequate legal framework and deploying full-scale demonstration projects at sea are necessary for the commercialization of such technologies in SA.

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