Carbon Trust have commissioned a range of detailed reports on technology, cost and resource for wave and tidal flow energy devices. Technical reports Technical overview of wave and tidal stream energy (55kb, pdf) 2006 Ocean waves and wave energy device design (600kb, pdf) 2006 Tidal stream and tidal stream energy device design (252kb, pdf) 2006 Glossary of technical terms 2006 (1642kb, pdf) 2006 Shoreline and near-shore OWC wave energy devices summary (65kb, pdf) 2006 Foundations and moorings for tidal systems (1396kB, pdf) 2009 Variability of wave and tidal stream energy - overview (81kb, pdf) 2006 ECI report on variability of UK marine energy resources (3465kb, pdf) 2005 ECI report on diversified renewable energy resources (869kb, pdf) 2006 Life-cycle energy and emissions of marine energy devices (58kb, pdf) 2006 Guidelines on standards for marine energy devices 2005 Engineering testing of marine energy devices (87kb, pdf) 2006 OWC wave energy converter evaluation (3905kb, pdf) 2005 Cost of energy Cost estimation methodology (current 2012) Energy capture performance (276kb, pdf) 2006 Capital, operating and maintenance costs (120kb, pdf) 2006 Resource estimation UK wave energy resource (1.3MB, pdf) 2012 Appendix B: Charts (10MB, pdf) 2012 UK tidal current resource and economic assessment (1707kb, pdf) 2011 Appendix A: UK resource map (2MB, pdf) 2011 Appendix B: Site charts (8MB, pdf) 2011 Appendix C: Hydrodynamic methodlogy update (2MB, pdf) 2011 Black and Veatch summary report on UK tidal stream resources (328kd, pdf) 2005 Overview of UK tidal stream resource and tidal stream technology (126kb, pdf) 2006
Marine energyCarbon Trust has been working with the marine energy industry since 2003, delivering £50 million of innovation in wave and tidal stream energy technology.
Accelerating marine energyThe potential for cost reduction in wave and tidal stream energy – insights from the Carbon Trust Marine Energy Accelerator
TINAs: Examining the potential of low carbon technologiesIn-depth reports into key areas of innovation in low carbon technologies: heat, bioenergy, marine energy, electricity networks and storage, nuclear fission and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
Marine cost of energy methodologyConduct a fair, comparative assessment of different marine energy devices using our cost estimation spreadsheet.