You can also follow our work by clicking on these clips from our recent 'Power for Change' video.
(If you think that you would like a VHS copy of this video please contact Jamie.Taylor@ed.ac.uk )

Looking for a general introduction to wave energy?

A very good start is Chapter 8 ('Wave Energy') by Les Ducker in the Open University book: 'Renewable Energy - power for a sustainable future', Editor: Godfrey Boyle, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-856451-1. Although several major projects have started up since then, this remains a very good introduction to the subject.

An older but more detailed treatment of the fundamentals is in Chapter 12 of the excellent 'Renewable Energy Resources', by John Twidell and Tony Weir, Spon, 1985, ISBN 0-419-12010-6. This link is to the new 2002 edition which we haven' t had a look at yet.

You may want to know more about waves - how they're generated by wind, how they're measured, what happens in shallow water, how they're forecast, how their directional properties are assessed. There is a wonderful but hard to get hold of book: 'Waves in Ocean Engineering', M.J.Tucker & E.G. Pitt, Elsevier, 2001, ISBN 0-08-043566-1. Tucker started working with waves in 1944 and spent six years writing this book after retiring from the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences. This second edition of the book has been substantially revised by his colleague Ted Pitt. The book covers most aspects of waves with mathematical treatments that are accessible to the interested reader, but there is also a lot of contextual information about the recent post-war history of wave measurements and analysis which makes it a most enjoyable read.

A classic journalistic account by an author who has followed developments from the beginning is: 'Power from the Waves', David Ross, Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-856511-9

At a higher and more mathematical level there is a very good new text by a long established and well respected Norwegian wave energy expert:'Ocean Waves and Oscillating Systems', Johannes Falnes, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-521-78211-2

Conferences

A very good way to find out more about recent wave energy activities in the Europe and the rest of the world is by getting hold of the proceedings of recent conferences:

MAREC 2001 International Conference on Marine Renewable Energies, March 2001, organised by the Institute of Marine Engineers, Proceedings: IMarE Conference, Volume 113, 1. ISBN: 1-902536-43-6

Fourth European Wave Energy Conference 2000, 4th-6th December, Aalborg Denmark. Proceedings published by Energy Centre Denmark, Danish Technological Institute, DK-2630 Tastrup, ecd@teknologisk.dk, ISBN 87-90074-09-2

Third European Wave Energy Conference 1998, sponsored by the European Commision, 30th September - 2nd October 1998, Patras Greece, proceedings pubslished by Dr-Ing. Wilhelm Dursthoff, University of Hannover, Germany

The Second European Wave Power Conference, sponsored by the European Commision - conference code: EUR 16932, 8th - 10th November 1995, Lisbon. Proceedings published 1996: ISBN 92-827-7492-9

1993 European Wave Energy Symposium, 21st-24th July 1993, Edinburgh. Organised by NEL. Proceedings published by European Commission EUR 15571 EN, ISBN 0-903640-84-8.

Useful wave & tidal power links

latest link: 7th April 2008
Checkmate Seaenergy (UK: Anaconda device)

Universities, National and Government sites