# Onshore Wave Energy: 90% Availability, Transforming Renewable Power Generation

- Show: [Hardware to Save a Planet](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet)
- Published: 2025-10-02
- Length: 42m
- Episode: 88
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-10-02-onshore-wave-energy-90-availability-transforming-renewable-power-generation
- Listen: https://podcasts.fame.so/e/68r7lvkn-onshore-wave-energy-inna-braverman

## Summary

Inna Braverman, founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power, explains how her company is commercializing wave energy by attaching floaters to existing onshore coastal infrastructure like breakwaters and jetties, avoiding the high costs and durability issues of offshore systems. She details the hydraulic technology that converts wave motion into electricity, the company's journey from a $1 million seed investment to grid-connected pilots in Gibraltar, Israel, and Los Angeles, and the regulatory hurdles they overcame to secure legislation in California. Braverman highlights the technology's 90% availability rate compared to solar and wind, its low environmental impact, and the path to cost parity through scaling to 20-megawatt projects.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-10-02-onshore-wave-energy-90-availability-transforming-renewable-power-generation#t=0) Introduction and Guest Background
- [2:14](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-10-02-onshore-wave-energy-90-availability-transforming-renewable-power-generation#t=134) Founding Eco Wave Power and Early Feasibility
- [11:12](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-10-02-onshore-wave-energy-90-availability-transforming-renewable-power-generation#t=672) Onshore vs. Offshore Wave Energy Strategy
- [21:07](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-10-02-onshore-wave-energy-90-availability-transforming-renewable-power-generation#t=1267) Engineering Challenges and Grid Connection
- [25:15](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-10-02-onshore-wave-energy-90-availability-transforming-renewable-power-generation#t=1515) Cost Structure and Commercial Viability
- [31:15](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-10-02-onshore-wave-energy-90-availability-transforming-renewable-power-generation#t=1875) Regulatory Hurdles and Financing
- [37:46](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/hardware-to-save-a-planet/2025-10-02-onshore-wave-energy-90-availability-transforming-renewable-power-generation#t=2266) Future Vision and Climate Optimism

## Topics

- [Energy & climate tech](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/energy-and-climate-tech)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Starting a product company](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/starting-a-company)
- [Policy, trade & tariffs](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/policy-trade-and-tariffs)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- Eco Wave Power (company)
- Pelamis (company)
- Siemens (company)
- EDF (company)
- Shell (company)
- Eco Concrete (company)

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