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Wave Energy Along the Coast of Southern Africa
feed-in tariffs were recently introduced for renewable energy by the unique opportunity to monitor device performance and optimise
South African government – unfortunately wave energy was not device configurations for typical southern-hemisphere conditions. n
included, but such government incentives will attract international
investors, which will stimulate economic growth and lead to Acknowledgements
economic benefits such as job creation; and I would like to thank SANERI and CRSES for their support during my
WEC devices are designed and optimised for the prevailing ongoing studies. I would also like to express my gratitude to Mr Eddie
wave conditions of their country of origin (predominately Bosman and Professor Wikus van Niekerk for their contributions to
northern-hemisphere countries). Therefore, South Africa offers a this report.
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