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One of the most important barriers against wave energy conversion is the efficiency of the devices compared with all the associated costs over the lifetime of an electricity generating plant, which translates into a very high Levelised Cost of Energy (LCoE) compared to that of other renewable energy technologies such as wind or solar photovoltaic. Furthermore, the industrial roll-out of Wave Energy Converter (WEC) devices is severely hampered by problems related to their reliability and operability, particularly in open waters and during harsh environmental sea conditions. WEC technologies in multi-purpose breakwaters\u2014i.e., a structure that retains its primary function of providing sheltered conditions for port operations to develop and includes electricity production as an added co-benefit\u2014appears to be a promising approach to improve cost-effectiveness in terms of energy production. This paper presents the proof of concept study of a novel hybrid-WEC (HWEC) that uses two well understood power generating technologies, air and water turbines, integrated in breakwaters, by means of a composite modelling approach. Preliminary results indicate: firstly, hybridisation is an adequate approach to harness the available energy most efficiently over a wide range of metocean conditions; secondly, the hydraulic performance of the breakwater improves; finally, no evident negative impacts in the overall structural stability specific to the integration were observed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jmse9020226","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,21]],"date-time":"2021-02-21T21:15:01Z","timestamp":1613942101000},"page":"226","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Proof of Concept of a Breakwater-Integrated Hybrid Wave Energy Converter Using a Composite Modelling Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8891-7611","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Theofano I.","family":"Koutrouveli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"IMDC\u2014International Marine and Dredging Consultants, Van Immerseelstraat 66, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium"}]},{"given":"Enrico","family":"Di Lauro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IMDC\u2014International Marine and Dredging Consultants, Van Immerseelstraat 66, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7876-6423","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luciana","family":"das Neves","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IMDC\u2014International Marine and Dredging Consultants, Van Immerseelstraat 66, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium"},{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, FEUP\u2014Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s\/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7846-8311","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tom\u00e1s","family":"Calheiros-Cabral","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, FEUP\u2014Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s\/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3768-3314","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paulo","family":"Rosa-Santos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, FEUP\u2014Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s\/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Francisco","family":"Taveira-Pinto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, FEUP\u2014Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s\/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Barstow, S., M\u00f8rk, G., Mollison, D., and Cruz, J. 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