Scientists from UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) have invented designs and procedures to get power from marine currents in regions of immense depths improving the prices.

The latest devices employing the power from marine currents in immense depths pose the issue of high price of installation, production, and maintenance. To deal with this problem, members at UPM for the GITERM (Technological Research Group in Marine Renewable Energy) have established a way to evaluate the life-cycle price of an energy generation park supported on these gadgets that can be employed in the early phases of design. The process has been lately posted in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

After a wide expansion of offshore wind energy, analysts concur that the next measure is the employment of the power from marine currents, majorly generated by the waves. Now, Canada and Europe are beginning to set up the first trial parks supported with gadgets installed on the seabed, dubbed as the first generation.

It is expected that almost 80% of the power from tides are situated in regions of more than 40 Meters of deepness. Hence it is essential to employ a fresh design device that can operate in areas where it is costly to set up first generation gadgets such as huge structures alongside the seabed. These sets of the 2nd generation have a range of cables and anchors that hold the gadget to the seabed.

Amable López is a scientist at the School of Naval Engineering from the GITERM group at UPM and states, “Our GESMEY gadget, copyrighted by the University, has been the initial design all over the world trialed in the sea and ideal to work completely submerged. This is all due to the price evaluation tool; we were capable of assessing diverse design options with a final objective”