WAVE OF THE FUTURE? RENEWABLE ENERGY: SMART POWER BUOY – WAVE POWER EXPANDS RECHARGE AT SEA POSSIBILITIES*

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PRECIOUS MWANSA

Trainee Attorney | Energy, Mining & Infrastructure | Dispute Resolution | Reagan Blankfein Gates Legal Practitioners

From powering sensor systems to recharging autonomous vehicles to feeding the power grid, Resen Waves seems to be making ground-breaking changes in the renewable wave power market.

The Danish company Resen Waves contends that while innovators have attempted to harness the tremendous renewable power potential of waves, the company is able to do just that to remotely power sea-based instruments and vehicles and eventually all the way up to entire cities.

The Resen Waves Smart Power Buoy is designed to harness the constant movement of waves to power autonomous machinery (AUVs) and instruments in the sea with clean, renewable, continuous energy while facilitating real-time, uninterrupted data communications. Resen Waves’ Smart Power Buoy sits at the crux of an important crossroads; renewable energy and the emerging need to provide power at sea. While working in the sea is a daunting job, Roland Boysen, CEO, has stated that his company is cracking the code on generating power from waves safely, efficiently, and simply.

The biggest disadvantage as regards wave energy is location. This is to say, only power plants and towns near the ocean will benefit directly from it. Therefore, because of its source, wave energy is not a viable power source for landlocked countries like Zambia. However, it is hopeful that such innovations can eventually be redesigned and made adaptable to water sources such as falls, rivers and lakes which are in abundance in Zambia.

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