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    The Aguçadoura Wave Farm was a wave farm located 5 km (3 mi) offshore near Póvoa de Varzim north of Porto in Portugal. The farm was designed to use three...
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    Aguçadoura Wave Farm, BBC News, 2005-05-19, archived from the original on 2009-06-09, retrieved 2010-03-21 Jha, Alok (2008-09-25), "Aguçadoura Wave Farm"...
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    Pelamis machine bursting through a wave at the Aguçadoura Wave Park 1 of 3 Pelamis machines at the Aguçadoura Wave Farm Portugal portal Water portal Renewable...
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    tested devices there: the Archimedes Wave Swing, three Pelamis Wave Power P1 machines as the Aguçadoura Wave Farm, the Principle Power WindFloat, and CorPower...
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    multi-generator wave farm was opened in Portugal at the Aguçadoura wave park. Both projects have since ended. For a list of other wave power stations see...
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    began operating, while the world's first commercial wave power farm, the Aguçadoura Wave Farm, opened in the Norte region (2008). By 2006, 66% of the...
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  • deploy, demonstrate and certify an array of point-absorber WECs at the Aguçadoura test site in Portugal. The project is being conducted in phases, (1) a...
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    installed location 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) offshore of Aguçadoura, Portugal, previously the Aguçadoura Wave Farm. The WindFloat was equipped with a Vestas v80...
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    parish of Aguçadoura. Aguçadoura is popular among Northern Portuguese and Northern Spanish surfers and the world's first commercial wave farm is located...
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  • CorPower Ocean (category Wave energy converters)
    offshore of Aguçadoura in northern Portugal as part of their HiWave-5 project. This is at the Aguçadoura test site previously used by Pelamis Wave Power for...
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    Description:Wave power is used to generate electricity. 2008 The world's first commercial wave farm is located at the Aguçadoura Wave Farm near Póvoa de...
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    Miguel was produced by geothermal energy.[1] Aguçadoura Wave Farm was the world's first commercial wave farm when it opened on 23 September 2008. It was...
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    Portugal at the Aguçadoura Wave Farm in late 2008. In 2009, the Swedish power firm Vattenfall started development of the Aegir Wave Farm off the west coast...
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  • resulting in the installation of three Pelamis Wave Energy Converters in 2008, the Aguçadoura Wave Farm. Located off the northwest coast of Portugal near...
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    offshore capacity in the floating wind turbine WindFloat near the Aguçadoura Wave Farm in Póvoa de Varzim. It achieved successful testing, and it was transferred...
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    population decline in the coastal agricultural parishes north of the city (Aguçadoura, Navais and Estela). The city center kept attracting inhabitants with...
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    from the city core, such as Santo André, are less crowded. Salgueira and Aguçadoura are surfing beaches. Located near a camping park, Rio Alto Beach is chosen...
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    of the Archimedes Wave Swing technology that had been developed by Teamwork Technology BV in the Netherlands, and tested at Aguçadoura, Portugal in 2004...
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    industry. The world's first commercial wave farm was located in its coast, at the Aguçadora Wave Park. The wave farm used three Pelamis P-750 machines with...
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    Póvoa, namely Santo André (currently in the modern civil parishes of Aguçadoura and Aver-o-Mar) and Fão (in Esposende). Since the 18th century, the urban...
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