Antinuclear

Wave energy possesses unique characteristics that offer an advantage over other renewables such as wind and solar energy:
Less variable and with the variability being more gradual and with notice; and

More predictable. Australia’s preeminent research organization, the CSIRO, estimates wave energy is at least three times more predictable than wind energy;

The proximity of favourable wave energy sites to ultimate end users, thereby minimising transmission issues. Notably, approximately 60% of the world’s population lives within 60 kilometres of a coast.

Carnegie’s Mauritian Wave and Microgrid Design Project is focused on the potential for high penetration renewable energy microgrids that incorporate wave energy.
The Project on Mauritius and the neighbouring island of Rodrigues will deliver three outcomes by the end 2016:
1. A renewable energy roadmap for Mauritius, including: technical, commercial and financial feasibility of high penetration renewable energy.
2. An assessment of the Mauritian wave energy resource and the…