Determination of the Wave Power Potential for Delta State, Nigeria
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14529736Keywords:
Significant wave height, mean wave energy, wave power density, wave energy density.Abstract
Wave energy potential for three points located in Delta state of Nigeria along the Gulf of Guinea has been determined. The points were indicated as NDelt1 located 0.63 km distance from the shoreline along Benin river, NDelt2 located 2.89 km from the shoreline along Escravos river and NDel3 located 2.41 km distance from the shoreline along Forcados river bars. Ten years (2014 to 2023) dataset at the horizontal resolution of 0.50 X 0.50 with hourly temporal resolution were been obtained from ERA5 of the European Council for Medium Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF). The results shows that the average wave power densities of NDelt1, NDelt2 and NDelt3 are 23.96, 25.71 and 23.13 kW/m respectively. The wave power density is maximum during summer season and minimum during winter for both locations. During the summer season, NDelt1 has the average power density of 36.01 kW/m with NDelt2 having 43.38 kW/m and NDelt3 has 35.16 kW/m. while during winter season, NDelt1, NDelt2 and NDelt3 has wave power densities of 12.35 kW/m, 27.1 kW/m and 12.99 kW/m respectively. The total wave power and energy density for the three stations are 72.79 kW/m and 6159.17 MWh/m indicating that the wave resource for electricity generation is available.
