Wave power will pioneer renewable energy

On June 9, the Hiratsuka Marine Energy Research Association was established
at a hotel in Kanagawa to conduct a demonstration experiment on wave power generation in Sagami Bay, along the coast of Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa.
The city and the Tokyo Dai Production Technology Research Center will install wave power generation equipment
with a power generation capacity of 150 kW in 2020.
Pioneering renewable energy
through waves.

In the next two years, citizens will work on the wave power generation concept exercise, and in 2020, three 50 MW power generation facilities will be installed in Sagami Bay, near the Hiratukatama Saburo Fishing Port, on the banks of the Senseki River in the city, for about 1 billion yen
.
The Hiratsuka Power Station, which is about 30 meters wide, 12 meters deep, and has a water surface height of about 9 meters, will seek to produce and sell
electricity in-house.
In terms of funding, the global warming strategy tax
is used for the popularization of renewable energy.

Yasuki Maruyama, a specially appointed professor at the institute, said that the biggest obstacle to wave power generation is damage to the equipment of large waves such as typhoons, and stable waves with a height of about 2 meters are an ideal environment
.
The Hiratsuka coast is quite suitable
.
In the future, the need for renewable energy is high in terms of global warming, and ocean power generation such as waves and tides is expected to account for about
10% of the total electricity energy in 50 years.

Professor Lin Changkui of the institute said by Officer about 1 km off the Hiratsuka Coast coast that it remains to be achieved in 10 to 15 years, renewable energy is expected to become the world's largest industry
.
We want to be the birthplace
of renewable energy with Hiratsuka as the core.
Mayor Katsuhiro Ochiai said that the industry is very attractive
.