Bay of Fundy being studied for tidal power project
Researchers have come up with seven possible locations to build a tital power system along the shores of Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy, part of an international feasibility study being spearheaded by the California-based Electric Power Research Institute. A team from EPRI will prepare a final report to be released sometime next spring. The report will help determine whether to take the next step of building a test facility, though the process could take many years. Here’s a recent post on the issue of tidal power and challenges, and a year-old report on progress and opportunities in British Columbia.
I completely forgot that back in July funding was granted to a tidal project in B.C. from Sustainable Development Technology Canada. The company leading the project is Vancouver-based Clean Current Power Systems.
According to a press release, “the multi-year demonstration project will involve the installation, operation and monitoring of a 65kW free-stream tidal turbine generator in the water near Race Rocks, a provincial ecological reserve located 10 nautical miles southwest of Victoria.” The system is slated to begin operation in early 2006.
We could end up seeing two interesting tidal projects unfold on both coasts of Canada.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
