Technical Publications

Modifications to national energy demand/supply database, YAP, Federated States of Micronesia, July 1999

Report designed to assist the state of Yap's Energy Planning Unit (EPU) in sourcing, collecting and inputting energy data into the modified version of the database. The National Energy Demand/Supply Database was established to enable PICs to source, record and store energy data to develop their policies, also to be made available to donors and other regional organizations for their appropriate purposes.

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The wave climate of Western Samoa

In the present report data from the wave measurement programme, undertaken by Waverider buoys moored off the south coast of the two islands of Savai'i and Upolu, and directional wave measurements to the south east of Upolu are combined with satellite altimetric data and island wind measurements in building up a picture of the climatology of ocean waves off the shores of Western Samoa.

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Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) and the Pacific Islands

This paper is the result of the discussions held during the Regional Energy Meeting (REM) 2000 and the SOPAC STAR Energy Working Group 2000 meeting which noted the need to provide technical information on "New Energy Technologies" in particular hydrogen fuel, ocean thermal energy conversion and space solar power generation.

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Use of satellite remote sensing data for study of wave climate, 30 January - 17 February 1995, OCEANOR, Trondheim, Norway

Training at OCEANOR in Norway on the use of satellite remote sensing data for study of wave climate. This training attachment was part of extended NORAD assistance to SOPAC's Regional Wave Energy Assessment Program. The attachment was carried out from 30 January -17 February 1995. Under the program OCEANOR, an oceanographic company fromNorway, was hired to study the wave climate for the South Pacific. In Fiji the tidal potential of an inlet in Vanua Levu was investigated.

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