The Development of a Combined Renewable Energy Converter for Offshore Wind and Ocean Energy Extraction

South Korea has huge renewable energy potential that has been to some extent and can be further extracted to reduce its heavy reliance on fossil fuels. This project focuses on ocean and coastal wind resources available in the south-western regions of Korea that are currently being monitored and found to have huge potential. The project will introduce a new concept of wind, tidal current and wave energy converting systems combined together that can boost output power capacity at one single location also making it easier for grid connection. Wind turbines nowadays have been quite efficiently developed and implemented throughout the world both onshore and offshore. However, for offshore technologies in deeper seas have yet more room for improvement. The current study will combine the offshore wind turbine (WT) system with tidal current turbines (TCT) both in horizontal axis classification on a single tower. It will further discuss on adding a wave energy converter in between the wind and tidal current turbines. The projected model of the combined system is illustrated in the Fig. 1.