Renewable Energy in Marine Environment

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of "Renewable Energy in Marine Environment" and related topics. Marine renewable sources are abundant, and the amount of energy that can be generated using existent technologies varies from site-to-site and day-to-day, depending on location and weather conditions. The technologies currently associated with energy extraction in the marine environment are highly important to achieving the expected targets in energy efficiency. On the other hand, although significant progress has been made in recent years in extracting marine energy, there are still important challenges related to the implementation of cost-effective technologies that could survive in the harsh marine environment. From this perspective, this Special Issue seeks to contribute to the renewable energy agenda through enhanced scientific and multi-disciplinary works aiming to improve knowledge and performance in harvesting renewable energy in the marine environment. We therefore invite papers on innovative technical developments, reviews, case studies, and analytics, as well as assessments, and papers from different disciplines, that are relevant to renewable energy extraction in marine environment.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Conversion of the wave energy;
• Conversion of the tidal energy;
• Offshore wind;
• Floating platforms;
• Hybrid concepts;
• Modeling waves, tides, and offshore wind;
• Numerical modelling of marine energy converters;
• Physical modelling of marine energy converters;
• Arrays modelling;
• Risk and reliability assessment in marine energy extraction;
• Environmental impact of marine energy extraction;
• LCOE dynamics in marine energy.

Prof. Dr. Eugen Rusu
Guest Editor

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