Transcript Current Activities

New Energy Corporation
• New Energy is a manufacturer
of in-stream hydro power
generation equipment
• Commercializing the EnCurrent
vertical axis hydro turbine –
fresh and salt water
• Size range is 5 kW to 250 kW
per unit - may be increased
with time
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OREG
Ocean Renewable Energy Group
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collaboration between industry, academia & government
proven Canadian energy project sector
new and emerging ocean technologies
production solutions for ocean renewable energy
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Ocean energy technology companies
Ocean power generation companies
Ocean technology and fabrication companies
Ocean engineering researchers, institutes and academia
Federal Marine Energy R&D group/Interdepartmental Working
Group
• Provincial ministries of energy and economic development
• Atlantic and Pacific coastal utilities
• International ocean energy companies
110 members
Hydrokinetic Power Generation
- generation of power from a moving stream of water
• Rivers
•Canals
• Industrial Outflows
•Tides
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State of the Industry
Early stage – commercial demonstration
• Smaller fresh water systems being
commercially deployed
• Tidal demonstration sites
• Verdant Power – East River
• Clean Current – Race Rocks
• Tidal demonstration centres
• EMEC - European Marine Energy Centre
• FORCE – Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy
Ruby, Alaska, USA
• Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council
• First grid-connected hydrokinetic project in the US
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Fort Simpson, Northwest
Territories, Canada
• Low-flow 25 kW
System on Mackenzie
River
• River over 1 km wide at
Fort Simpson
• Installation June of
2010
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Eagle, Alaska, USA
• Alaska Power & Telephone Project
• Tendered to ABS/New Energy in 2009
• Installation in June 2010
October 5, 2010
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Duncan Dam, British
Columbia, Canada
• Four 25 kW Systems
• Downstream of Water
Control Dam
• Equipment deployed in
December of 2009 to
test the impact of
multiple turbines
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Chilla Canal, India
Electric Power Research
Institute Fish Study
• Awaiting final report
• “Preliminary results are
favorable. No Atlantic
salmon smolts were
killed or visibly injured
in either the treatment
or control condition.
Likewise we saw no
clear evidence of strike
injuries among
American shad… ”
State of the Industry
Early stage – commercial demonstration
• Smaller fresh water systems being
commercially deployed
• Tidal demonstration sites
• Verdant Power – East River
• Clean Current – Race Rocks
• Tidal demonstration centres
• EMEC - European Marine Energy Centre
• FORCE – Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy
www.OREG.ca
Fundy Ocean Research Centre
for Energy
Bay of Fundy
Minas Passage
The largest ocean energy infrastructure in
the world!
10 km: 4 x 2.5 km,
double armour
35 KV
Installed cost: ~ $11 million
Deployment: Summer 2011
Technology Developers
Open Hydro
Marine Current
Turbines
Clean Current
Westport, Nova Scotia, Canada
• In partnership with
Fundy Tidal Inc
• Community based tidal
projects in the Bay of
Fundy
• Westport
• 5 kW in October of 2010
• 25 kW in spring 2011
• 250 kW System slated for
summer of 2011
Tidal Resource in Canada
Seymour
800 MW
Discovery
330 MW
Dent
130 MW
Arran
90 MW
Yaculta
90 MW
Gillard
50 MW
Canoe Pass, British
Columbia, Canada
• 500 kW Tidal
Demonstration on
Vancouver Island
• Stillwater construction
• Removal of causeway
• Permitting underway
• Installation Q3/Q4 2011
• $5 million in grants and
private investment
New Energy Proprietary and Confidential
October 5, 2010
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Canoe Pass Overlay
Project objectives
• Prove the viability of New Energy’s 250 kW
EnCurrent turbines in an ocean environment
• Model the project review and permitting process
• Demonstrate the reliability of tidal power as a grid
connected energy source
• Demonstrate, through project monitoring, the
minimal environmental impact of tidal power
projects
• Develop a project development service and supply
cluster for tidal energy in BC
Summary
• Hydrokinetic technology for Tidal and In-
stream power generation is here
• British Columbia is in the enviable position of
having both fresh water and tidal resources
• There are two opportunities:
• Develop the resource – both fresh and salt water
• Develop the industry associated with the service
and supply of equipment
R&
Thank You
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