Energy solutions

Bombora’s mWave™ product can provide energy solutions to address the cost of energy and sustainability challenges faced by today’s energy consumers, producers, utilities, and project developers.

Utility Scale

mWave™ projects can generate Gigawatts of power and deliver utility scale energy solutions.

CO2 Reduction

Governments, organisations and communities have a range of key drivers to adopt clean energy.

Wave power provides a viable alternative to reduce high diesel costs and transition to a zero-carbon electricity source helping clients meet social and economic objectives.

Wind + Wave Co-location / Integration

Pairing ocean wave energy with offshore wind has the potential to be a game changer for marine renewable energy. The potential to integrate or co-locate wind and wave platforms opens a world of opportunity.

mWave can deliver major benefits to offshore wind project developers:

Increased power output

Integrating mWave™ onto a floating wind platform or co-locating wave and wind platforms in the same seabed lease area can significantly improve the overall capacity and reliability of power supply.

The power smoothing advantages of combining wind and wave power technologies in offshore energy parks are beneficial to managing power supply. Waves are more persistent and predictable than the wind. Combining wave and wind power production can deliver greater consistency and significantly increase output in energy production.

Co-located wind and wave

mWave™ generates power consistently across the full range of wind speeds thanks to the low correlation between the wind and wave resource.

Wind Farm Optimisation

Integrating or co-locating offshore mWave™ wave power technology with floating wind turbines will optimise the utilisation of seabed lease areas.

Reduced Infrastructure Costs

Integrating or co-locating offshore mWave™ wave power technology with floating wind turbines will result in shared cost of electrical infrastructure including export cable and grid. For an integrated solution, the cost reduction benefits are further increased with a shared platform.

Improved Operations and Maintenance

All operations and maintenance are achievable using existing service vessels used in both fixed bottom wind and offshore oil and gas industries.

Wave Farms

As mWave™ volumes increase and costs reduce, large scale stand-alone wave farms, fixed and floating, can be developed along coastlines facing out into the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The advantages of mWave™ farms:

Wave energy is a less variable and more predictable power supply (waves are more prevailing and significantly more accurately forecast)
Wave energy farms can be more compact than wind farms
Wave energy is an abundant untapped renewable energy source
Wave energy has less environmental impact than large wind turbines (sea birds, migration birds)
Simpler offshore maintenance activities (no high heavy lifts required) can be performed with standard production support and intervention vessels
Key component failure will not lead to loss of generation from entire system. i.e. a cell or membrane failure will disable only the failed cell whilst allowing energy production to continue using remaining cells.

A study by Aquaterra Energy concluded that there is 300% more exploitable wave resource offshore than nearshore. There is significant opportunity to increase the number of suitable global wave farm sites by going into deeper waters offshore with a floating mWave™ farm.

Offshore wind is the UK government’s benchmark for cost effective sustainable energy, this is fast becoming a saturated marketplace. Over time floating offshore mWave platforms, stand-alone or integrated/co-located with wind, can scale up to offer cost efficient, utility scale generating capacity potential.

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Island Nations

For island nations seeking to decarbonise their electricity supply, mWave presents some unique advantages. Not only is it cost effective versus diesel power generation, but all offshore infrastructure can remain submerged below the waterline, at a depth that poses no obstruction to recreational vessels. A sea-based installation makes good sense for islands seeking to preserve their visual amenity or unwilling to give up limited space for land-based renewables.

Applying bottom fixed mWave technology nearshore offers a sustainable clean energy solution to island nations with a good natural wave resource that can scale with demand over time.

Bombora is progressing a 3MW fixed wave park project off the coast of Lanzarote, Spain, a community currently highly dependent on costly and very polluting diesel for power generation. Find out more about this project.

Oil and Gas Platforms

Oil and Gas companies are facing carbon reduction challenges. The deployment of floating mWave’s adjacent to offshore oil and gas platforms provides the opportunity for the electrification of offshore operations with a long-term sustainable solution.

Bombora is currently working in partnership with a global O&G EPC contractor to refine this techno-economic proposition. Find out more about this project.