Ocean Energy Outlook

Abstract

The growing demand for energy, a product of globalization and economic development, along with an increasingly necessary change in the energy matrix due to the gradual and sustained rise in the cost of fossil fuels, their growing scarcity, and the undeniable adverse environmental effect that their indiscriminate use is causing to the planet, makes it necessary to search for new and more sustainable energy sources. In this context, ocean energy is emerging with ever greater strength as a viable alternative and as an inexhaustible source of energy resources available and waiting to be used. The objective of this document is to present the latest advances in energy extraction technologies from the oceans and to show, from a qualitative point of view, the benefits and difficulties that their application currently presents. It is clear that technologies develop to the extent that there is interest and opportunity. Today, the opportunities exist; what is missing is to generate greater interest in renewable energies and a better level of knowledge in the field, so that it becomes attractive to invest in their development and they can become truly competitive.