Sindhuja-I or ‘Ocean Wave Energy Converter’ by IIT Madras The researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) have developed a device called Sindhuja-I or ‘Ocean Wave Energy Converter’, that can generate electricity from sea waves. Sindhuja means “created from the ocean” in Sanskrit. The device was deployed approximately 6 kilometres (km) off the coast of Tuticorin at a location with a depth of 20 metres. The Ocean Wave Energy Converter targets generating 1 megawatt (MW) of power from ocean waves in the next 3 years. The device trials were completed during the second week of November 2022. It could assist India in meeting its climate change-related goals of generating 500 GW of electricity from renewable energy by 2030.
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