A submerged point absorber wave energy converter for the Mediterranean Sea

Regarding the serious environmental and energy problem existing in the world, renewable technology has taken the global attention. The unexploited huge potential of wave energy challenges the world scientific community, to achieve a sustainable wave energy absorption. Mediterranean is a closed sea with lower energy potential compared to the oceans. However, an efficient WEC that maximizes the power output not with respect to the available power but to its characteristics and cost, could be a feasible solution. A preliminary assessment has been carried out of a submerged point absorber installed in the coast of the Pantelleria island. For the design and selection of the technical characteristics of the WEC a method proposed by Falnes is followed. In order to control and test the performance of the device in different situations, a mathematical model has been constructed in Matlab Simulink based on the Cummins Equation.