First commercial ocean thermal energy conversion floating platorm; Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe partners with UK-based Global OTEC

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"Small Island Developing States (SIDS) reside amid... unlimited source of baseload electricity... continuously available in almost all ocean locations between the tropics... the global practical resource, expected to reach 900 GW by 2050"

See also: Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is a process or technology for producing energy by harnessing the temperature differences (thermal gradients) between ocean surface waters and deep ocean waters

"Energy from the sun heats the surface water of the ocean. In tropical regions, surface water can be much warmer than deep water. This temperature difference can be used to produce electricity and to desalinate ocean water. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) systems use a temperature difference (of at least 77° Fahrenheit) to power a turbine to produce electricity. Warm surface water is pumped through an evaporator containing a working fluid. The vaporized fluid drives a turbine/generator. The vaporized fluid is turned back to a liquid in a condenser cooled with cold ocean water pumped from deeper in the ocean. OTEC systems using seawater as the working fluid can use the condensed water to produce desalinated water."

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