Sustainable electric energy microgeneration system based on electric eels

Due to the increasing energetic demand, solar and eolian electric energy microgenerations are already common for industrial and residential systems. Moreover, other types of emergent microgenerations such as radiofrequency and artificial light recycling are also found in commercial solutions. In this paper, we consider the electric energy microgeneration based on electric eels. First we conduct a measurement campaign using an electric eel considering three specific scenarios: the eel resting in calm water, the eel being stressed and the eel being exposed to a prey. Further, we propose a device to extract the electric eel energy. As a practical result, we show that an electric eel produces 6.05 mW in steady state, and that an arrangement of eels in a river can furnish daily to the grid approximately 60 Wh.