Abstract:
Wave energy has a number of significant advantages with respect to other renewable energy sources.
The wave resoch characterization is a crucial point towards the exploitation of wave energy. Wave power
along the Terengganu coast was analyzed at a time scale of months to examine the seasoml dependencies.
These investigations show that the Terengganu coast could provide a source of low wave power. The wave
climate in the Terengganu coast is among the harsh in Malaysia. The maximum wave height varies between
1-13 m and 3.13 m. The month of December has the highest probability of occurrence of significant wave
heights greater than 2 m (2.15%), the possibility of this occurrence begins in November and lasts through
January. Similarly, the month of December has the highest probability of occurrence of maximum wave heights
greater than 2 m is 44.09% followed by January (40.86%) and November (32.78%). An identical evolution is seen
for the wave heights in the classes 1-2 m, the highest frequency of occurrence is in December and represents
68.01% of the total of the month The wave mean period varies between 2.76 and 5.28 sec and monthly averaged
wave peak period varies between 3.94 and 8.28 sec. The main directions in terms of wave energy is North.
Further, its high wave energy potential is available during northeast monsoon season. It may be concluded that
the Terengganu coast of Malaysia can consider northeast monsoon period for wave energy exploitation
