World Energy Research & Blue Energy Canada To Develop 200-MW Tidal Energy Project

July 07, 2009 | 3 Comments

World Energy Research and Blue Energy Canada have signed a joint agreement under which World Energy Research would finance the development of Blue Energy Canada's first 200-megawatt (MW) commercial tidal power project at a cost of roughly US $500 million.

"The Blue Energy vertical-axis turbine represents two decades of Canadian research and development, which generates an inexpensive, non-exhaustible source of environmentally-safe electricity to power the world's energy needs," said Martin Burger, Blue Energy Canada's CEO.

World Energy Research, which specializes in the development and commercialization of green energy technology, said that it chose Blue Energy's relatively unproven resource-driven tidal power design over other technologies in the emerging tidal power sector.

"After exhaustive research, World Energy Research found several companies capable of producing small amounts of energy, but none on the scale of Blue Energy's Davis Tidal Turbine, which was developed specifically to harness tidal power on a large scale," said Chad Willis, managing director of World Energy Research.

3 Comments

ANONYMOUS
October 22, 2009

Adrian, Thank you for your very well done poem. Bravo. The next project should be The Gulf Stream Turbine LLC, they have a submersible turbine using hydrokinetic energy produced by the 24/7 Coriolis-force Gulf Stream Current off The South Florida Coast of Miami, and Fort Lauderdale and 1 turbine of 1.2 MW can offset 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide CO2 emissions per year. Their plan is by 2012-2013 to deploy 10,000 turbines 15 to 20 miles offshore in depths of 80 ft. to 300 ft. in depths of according to Dr. Richard Driscoll of Florida Atlantic University, 320 to 650 feet deep. We thought the depths were up to 1300 ft deep so his findings are very helpful to us. If Gulf Stream Turbines LLC are successful with 10,000 turbines offsetting 10,000 tons each year, when compared to a fossil fuel plant, that will reduce 100,000,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year, and at the going rate in Europe's carbon futures price in January 2011 of up to US $30. a ton thats US 3 billion in carbon offsets thats not counting the revenues that 8.94 gigawatts of electricity will be worth at that time or the amount of Hydrogen, which the major car companies want to use like Honda, Toyota, Daimler GM and Hyundai Motors because of zero emissions of CO2 just water as a discharge, and the ease of use, the same as today as going in to a filling station and filling up in less than 5 minutes, compared to plugging-in for many hours to recharge a battery that only has half the distance of a hydrogen fuel cell car. You can contact Gulf Stream Turbine on the web, or look for other press releases i guess. I think I typed in under google- What are the carbon futures prices in Europe in January 2011- and their story came up under Gulf Stream Turbines. Again I loved your poem.

Carolyn Luce
July 7, 2009

Where is this 200 MW tidal project going to be installed? Canada? New Zealand? Where?

Adrian Akau
July 7, 2009

Sea Hydro

We now look with pride,
To capturing the tide,
For upright axis turbines
Will in tidal steams abide,
Converting changing levels,
Of water in the sea,
That sun and moon pull to and fro
By arms of gravity.

Oh Canada we love you,
For this development,
Not being afraid to pave the way
With efforts heaven sent,
Sustainable is certain
For power transformation
The force of changing tides will bring
Sea hydro to this nation.

adrianakau2aol.com