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The SDE Sea Wave Power Plant is a renewable energy power plant utilizing sea wave energy for the production of electricity. The device is made of buoys which are placed on a breakwater, or on some other sea based structure, which create a vertical motion, according to the frequency of the sea wave. The buoys' movement presses on a hydraulic liquid, which is regulated by systems that convert the energy into circular systems. These systems operate an electricity generator and the process culminates in electricity production.
Developed by Israeli company, S.D.E. Energy LTD., the method takes advantage of the wave’s speed, height, depth, rise and fall, and the flow beneath the approaching wave, thus producing energy. The system's innovation is based on its self-correcting mechanism whereby, should a large wave overwhelm the buoy, it would flip over and then "wait" for a lower tide to flip back. The system's high survivability capability is based on the fact that only 10% of its components are submerged in sea water.[1] During its years of operation, S.D.E. has built and tested eight different models of its system, culminating with a full-scale model that operated and tested successfully in Jaffa Port located in Israel and produced 40ekW for a period of a year.[2]
In March, 2010, S.D.E. is preparing to move into the construction phase of two of its projects in the islands of Kosrae, Micronesia and Zanzibar.
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