Novel Techno-Economic Solutions for Offshore Renewable Energy Systems
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 7776
Special Issue Editors
Interests: offshore sustainable renewable energy systems; maintenance maneuvers; robotics; control; automation and sensor integration applied to offshore renewable energy systems
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Interests: tidal and ocean energy; sustainable technologies; maintenance maneuvers; life-cycle costs; techno-economic modeling; economic-financial viability; energy strategies and business modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to exhibit the latest research achievements, findings, and ideas from researchers working in offshore renewable energy systems in order to outline the current state-of-the-art and highlight the emerging trends and challenges in this field, ranging from mathematical and economic modeling to methodological aspects.
Producing truly reliable offshore renewable energy systems goes beyond overcoming a series of technological challenges, ranging from the conception, design, and operation of new devices with improvements such as stability, redundancy, seakeeping, or survival within the adverse conditions of the marine environment. On the other hand, these technical advances demand to be supported by economic analysis that need to be developed in an accurate manner in order not to compromise the commercial exploitations of these offshore renewable energy technologies. The results of the developed models help identify possible market applications and provide an estimate of long-term impacts. These methods, together with other forms of decision analysis, are very useful in the development and improvement of offshore renewable energy objectives since they will allow comparison of different decisions, evaluating their political and economic feasibility and providing guidance on potential financial and technological risks.
In this Special Issue proposal, potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Robotics and control algorithms
- Signal processing
- Offshore renewable energy conversion systems
- Offshore renewable energy resources
- Risk and reliability models
- Lifecycle assessment
- Techno-economic modeling
- Production costs
- Energy strategies
- Business modeling
- Levelized cost of electricity protections
Prof. Dr. Rafael Morales
Prof. Dr. Eva Segura
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- robotics and control algorithms
- signal processing
- offshore renewable energy conversion systems
- offshore renewable energy resources
- risk and reliability models
- lifecycle assessment
- techno-economic modeling
- production costs
- energy strategies
- business modeling
- levelized cost of electricity protections
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