Sustainable Development Goals — Marine Renewable Energy
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2022) | Viewed by 2649
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Interests: sustainability; energy; product and process design; lifecycle costing; lifecycle analysis and risks
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Dear Colleagues,
Energy is one of the socioeconomic drivers and therefore paramount to sustainable development—the challenge is that a large share of today’s primary energy is predominantly fossil. Unfortunately, after 20 years of investments in renewable energy, the ration between renewable and fossil energy sources has not moved much—only 4–5 percentage points (if we use the substitution method and exclude hydro and nuclear). With the oceans covering a large portion of the Earth’s surface, it is probably well overdue to investigate how renewable energy can also become a part of the marine environment at a much greater scale than today’s offshore windfarms. Furthermore, the oceans also hold forces that are unique, such as tidal power. In this issue, we would like to explore both such emerging technologies and existing technologies in the context of what can be labeled ‘marine renewable energy’. We welcome contributions that can be linked to at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals and that can provide insights into how the technology can be scaled. The contribution can focus on the technologies or novel approaches to evaluating the technologies.
Prof. Dr. Jan Emblemsvåg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- floating solar PV
- offshore windfarms
- tidal power
- emerging, marine technologies
- lifecycle analysis
- lifecycle costing/levelized cost of energy (LCOE)
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