Innovations and Inventions in Ocean Energy Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite submissions to this Special Issue on the subject of “Innovations and Inventions in Ocean Energy Engineering”.

As the demand for energy becomes higher, climate change, mostly induced by anthropogenic emissions, represents a reality that has to be considered, and effective actions should be taken very quickly. The energy sector is responsible for about three quarters of these emissions. From this perspective, the drastic reduction in CO₂ emissions represents an issue of highly increasing importance.

As we all know, offshore energy, and especially Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE), is abundant, and there are large spaces in both offshore and nearshore areas that can be considered for extracting various kinds of energy. Furthermore, the technologies currently associated with ocean energy extraction are very significant for achieving the expected targets in energy efficiency and environmental protection. Research into offshore wind has experienced outstanding success in the last decade and advances are also expected for other ocean technologies. At the same time, there are still important challenges related to the implementation of cost-effective technologies that could survive in the harsh marine environment.

From this perspective, the target of this Special Issue is to contribute to the sustainable energy agenda through enhanced scientific and multi-disciplinary works, aiming to improve knowledge and performance in harvesting ocean energy. We strongly encourage the submission of papers that provide innovative technical developments, reviews, case studies, and analytics, as well as assessments and manuscripts targeting different disciplines which are relevant to ocean energy extraction and to the associated advances and challenges. Expected climate change effects in marine environments are also topics of high interest for this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Eugen Rusu
Guest Editor

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