Prof Songwei Sheng

Director, Ocean Energy Research Laboratory, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Songwei Sheng, Ph.D., researcher, doctorial tutor, is the director of Ocean Energy Research Laboratory, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the member of Chinese Society of Oceanography, the Vice Chairman of the Marine Resources Branch of China Society of Natural Resources and the director of China Renewable Energy Society.

He has been engaged in the research of ocean wave energy development and utilization technology since 2002. He has managed a number of national science and technology projects, and successfully developed the Sharp Eagle wave power generation technology, which has obtained invention patents in China, the United States, UK and Australia, and has been certified by Bureau Veritas. He leaded to build the 10kW 、100kW 、500kW Sharp Eagle wave energy converters,, and large semi-submersible wave energy farming & leisure platform “Penghu”.

He won the Science and Technology Promotion Development Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2022 (the first finisher), the first prize of technical invention of Guangdong Province in 2019 (the first finisher).

Progress of wave energy research and development in China

Abstract：Nowadays, with the development of Marine exploitation activities, the electricity for offshore production and living consumption is increasing rapidly. In order to protect the Marine environment and achieve sustainable development of the ocean, the Chinese government and society have been actively promoting the utilization of renewable energy. Developing the abundant renewable wave energy in the ocean is one of the solutions to solve the problem of green energy supply at sea. The report briefly introduces the status of wave resources and wave energy technology development in China, focusing on the work of Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC) on research and development of ocean wave energy in the past 10 years, the application in different scenarios, and future development planning.

Songwei Sheng, Ph.D., researcher, doctorial tutor, is the director of Ocean Energy Research Laboratory, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the member of Chinese Society of Oceanography, the Vice Chairman of the Marine Resources Branch of China Society of Natural Resources and the director of China Renewable Energy Society.

He has been engaged in the research of ocean wave energy development and utilization technology since 2002. He has managed a number of national science and technology projects, and successfully developed the Sharp Eagle wave power generation technology, which has obtained invention patents in China, the United States, UK and Australia, and has been certified by Bureau Veritas. He leaded to build the 10kW 、100kW 、500kW Sharp Eagle wave energy converters,, and large semi-submersible wave energy farming & leisure platform “Penghu”.

He won the Science and Technology Promotion Development Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2022 (the first finisher), the first prize of technical invention of Guangdong Province in 2019 (the first finisher).

Progress of wave energy research and development in China

Abstract：Nowadays, with the development of Marine exploitation activities, the electricity for offshore production and living consumption is increasing rapidly. In order to protect the Marine environment and achieve sustainable development of the ocean, the Chinese government and society have been actively promoting the utilization of renewable energy. Developing the abundant renewable wave energy in the ocean is one of the solutions to solve the problem of green energy supply at sea. The report briefly introduces the status of wave resources and wave energy technology development in China, focusing on the work of Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC) on research and development of ocean wave energy in the past 10 years, the application in different scenarios, and future development planning.

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