IIT Madras researchers develop, deploy wave energy generator off Tamil Nadu coast

Ocean Wave Energy Generator, IIT Madras: Researchers at IIT Madras have developed and deployed a system that could generate electricity using energy from seawaves.The system, dubbed Sindhuja-I, was deployed by the researchers about six kilometres from the coast of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu, where the sea has a depth of about 20 metres. Sindhuja-I can currently produce 100 watts of energy. It will be scaled up to produce one megawatt of energy in the next three years.

“Currently, if you want to power a city like Chennai or a small part of it, it would be very expensive to do it with wave power and it would be much cheaper to use conventional energy sources.