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Eco Wave Power launches first megawatt-scale wave energy project in Portugal
(www.waterpowermagazine.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
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How many Mega Watts is the wave power itself? The whole project is only 20MW. A wind turbine is between 2 and 16MW depending on the size, so sounds like this would be equivalent to a few wind turbines?
Presumably while winds are intermittent, tides are constant.