Performance Analysis of Floating Buoy Point Absorber: In Perspective of Variability Reduction

Solar, wind and other forms of renewable energy have impact on lands. Production of wave energy from the waves is in places where there are the least impacts on the environment. Since generation of this energy is in the ocean, it does not interfere with human settlement. Wave energy is not only environment friendly but also beneficial to land impact. Therefore, this form of energy produces electrical power without any relocation. Considering the load side power requirement, the generated power consist high degree of variability. So, for a large scale generation of power and a feasible design, only one converter is not enough rather installation of multiple number of converters are needed. This paper targets the variation of output power and explores the methods to reduce it. The objective of this paper is to reduce the variability by setting up an array of wave energy converters.