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OFFSHORE RENEWABLES

Realizing potential

Carnegie Wave Energy’s CETO 5 and CETO 6 units.

Image from Carnegie Wave Energy

Tidal and wave energy projects are getting grid-wet this year, yet there’s still more to learn. Emma Gordon reports from All Energy.

An OpenHydro device. Carnegie Wave Energy’s Perth Wave Power project.

Image from OpenHydro.

Image from Carnegie Wave Energy he wave and tidal energy industry should be optimistic Elsewhere, the second phase of the Canadian array will about the future of marine renewables, given the range ultimately use the existing infrastructure at the Fundy Ocean

T of technologies being developed and deployed. Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) facility.

“In 2017, we’re aiming to increase capacity by adding

Yet, after a tough 3-4 years, more needs to be done in areas a further six turbines, bringing it to 16MW,” Connel says. such as collaboration, investment and industrialization to make “From then, we’ll build out on a phased basis from 50MW to wave- and tidal-based energy more competitive and cost-effective 300MW in the 2020s.” in comparison to other resources, speci? cally offshore wind.

That was the message during a panel session, chaired by Rob

Wave

Stevenson, president of Ocean Energy Europe, during the All

Energy Exhibition and Conference in Scotland in early May. Learnings from Carnegie Wave Energy’s Perth Wave Energy

Wave and tidal presentations during the show covered the global (PWE) project, using its CETO 5 unit, will help develop the next market, research and development as well as project updates.

Ocean thermal-energy

Tidal conversion gathers steam

Garrett Connell, project development manager at Ireland-

Against a backdrop of growing global activity, ocean thermal- headquartered OpenHydro, says 2015 is a milestone year for the energy conversion (OTEC) is increasingly attracting invest- company, with delivery on both sides of the Atlantic of two of ment, with work underway to develop technical speci? cations.

the world’s ? rst grid-connected tidal arrays.

Martin Brown, convenor of the International Electrotechnical

In the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, OpenHydro is working

Commission team charged with developing these outlines with Emera to deploy two of its 2MW, 16m, seabed-installed of technical speci? cations for land-based, shelf and ? oating open-center turbines. Offshore Brittany, France, at EDF’s

OTEC systems, says the speci? cations will serve to reassure

Paimpol-Bréhat site, another two 16m turbines will be installed potential investors, aid the due diligence process and give and connected later this year.

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