Wave Energy Research and Innovation Growing

Researchers have been working for years now on trying to complete and bring to market different energy projects that would involve generating energy from sea waves. There are already some regions that are further along than others in doing this, soon it might be coming to other areas like India as well.

Could sea waves help to provide more power to meet needs for the future?

We see that projects aimed at doing this are already deployed in different areas.

For the chance at bringing this to India as well there is a group of researchers at the Department of Ocean Engineering with IIT Madras who have been busy working at this over for a decade. By Dec of this year they are looking to allegedly make further progress with the launch of a remote water desalination system that will eventually be deployed if all goes according to plan in the region.

Will they be able to go fully commercial by 2024?

They have already been busy with trials and testing of the device and it looks like they've made great progress so far on this project. For now it is being targeted for use in rather remote offshore locations.

Wave power research and use has been rising around the world. Researchers say that the sea waves are so far a largely untapped energy source and there is a lot of potential to transition to more renewable energy here by going this route.

The issue now is investing and working on projects that can be scaled they say, in order to try and meet more demand for energy around the world today and in the years to come. How much longer until we see such a market surrounding sea wave energy come about to more areas? The wave energy market size is already suggested to be worth tens of millions and could easily grow to be worth a lot more.

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Sources:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eco-wave-power-continues-advance-040600100.html