FERC approves plans for new 300-KW ocean power plant

[ScienceRocks]

FERC approves plans for new 300-KW ocean power plant

FERC approves plans for new 300-KW ocean power plant | Renewable Energy News Article
EASTPORT, Maine -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved plans for a 300-KW tidal energy project near Maine's Cobscook Bay, according to members of the state's congressional delegation.

The permit will allow Portland-based Ocean Renewable Power Company to install turbine generator units on the ocean floor and operate the project for eight years.

The company says it has been engineering and field-testing its turbines in waters off Eastport since 2004 and now wants to install five turbines within a 61-acre area between Goose Island and Grove Point. Each of the units is 98-feet wide and 31-feet tall.

Ocean Renewable Power says it could begin construction of the plant as early as March 2012, adding to the list of wave power plants recently approved by FERC.

A 1.05-MW project in New York's East River was approved in January 2012.

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So all forms of energy are going to be used now!


FERC licenses first tidal pilot project, 1.05-MW Roosevelt Island
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued its first hydrokinetic pilot project license for a tidal project, the 1.05-MW Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project, on the East River in New York, N.Y.

Marine hydropower developer Verdant Power filed an application with FERC in December 2010 for the RITE project, seeking permission to install up to 30 tidal turbine-generators on the river bottom off Roosevelt Island. From 2006 to 2008, Verdant demonstrated a Free Flow System including six full-scale turbines, delivering energy to businesses in New York City.

FERC developed the pilot license process in 2008 to allow developers to test new hydrokinetic technologies, determine appropriate sites, and confirm the' environmental effects without compromising FERC oversight. Pilot licenses must be small; short-term; in an environmentally non-sensitive area; removable and able to shut down on short notice; and removed, with the site restored, before the license expires, unless a new license is issued.

FERC issued a 10-year pilot license January 23, authorizing Verdant to conduct a three-phase development:

Phase 1: three 35-kW, 5-meter-diameter axial-flow Kinetic Hydropower System turbines mounted on a single tri-frame in year 1;
Phase 2: nine additional 35-kW units mounted on three tri-frames in year 3; and
Phase 3: 18 additional 35-kW units mounted on six tri-frames in year 5.
The project also includes 480-volt underwater cables from each turbine to shoreline switchgear vaults that interconnect with a control room and interconnection points. It also includes facilities for navigation safety and operation.

Once Phase 3 is completed, the RITE project is to have annual generation of 2.4 GWh utilizing tidal flows of the East River, actually a 17-mile tidal strait connecting Long Island Sound with the Atlantic Ocean in New York Harbor. The units yaw with the flow, enabling them to generate during both ebb and flow cycles.

http://www.hydroworld.com/index/art...departments/breaking-news-hydro-currents.html

 

[Old Rocks]

Very good! That is the model needed. All of the above, and avoid polluting.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Very good! That is the model needed. All of the above, and avoid polluting.

As long as it can work economically, I'm for it. Economically, because I care about the people trying to pay their electric bills each month as much as you care about polluting.

My prosition has soften on this as I find that wind has been at least somewhat successeful. BP has gotten into it, which tells you that it makes some economical sense! Not sure yet about wave power, but we will see!

 

[Old Rocks]

Wave needs a lot of development, as does slow current. Geothermal also in the development stage. What all need is a national distributive grid, one that can pick up a 2 gw nuclear plant, or a 2 kw homeowners solar installation. Southeastern Oregon and Neveda have vast amounts of geothermal, wind, and solar potential, but there is no grid there at present. Same goes for the wind potential in Eastern Montana and Wyoming. Oregon Technical Institute in Klamath Falls is doing some interesting things in Geothermal. Quite well ahead of the curve for a small school.

 

[whitehall]

Tidal flow powered generators might work or they might cost more than they gain in electricity in the next 50 years.

 

[waltky]

Our aging power grid...

You Don't Need a Cyber Attack to Take Down The North American Power Grid
Friday, 09 March 2012 - The Obama administration simulated a cyber attack on New York City's power supply in a Senate demonstration aimed at winning support for legislation to boost the nation's computer defenses. Senators from both parties gathered behind closed doors in the Capitol Wednesday for the classified briefing attended by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Director Robert Mueller and other administration officials. The mock attack on the city during a summer heat wave was "very compelling," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is co-sponsoring a cybersecurity bill supported by President Barack Obama. "It illustrated the problem and why legislation is desperately needed," she said as she left the briefing. Bloomberg.

The US defense industry is in a full court press to get tens of billions in funding for cyberwarfare. To get that funding, they need to dramatize the potential threat of cyberwarfare. Here's how. The central method of attack in cyberwarfare is systems disruption. Systems disruption is a way to break networks to achieve extremely high levels of damage (or, in financial terms, high ROIs). One of the best ways to demonstrate that type of attack is through a disruption of the power supply (usually with NYC as a target).

The problem with this type of presentation is that you don't need cyberwarfare to do take down the electricity to New York City and get away with it. All you need is some household tools, imagination, and some knowledge of what the network looks like (gained by an effort at mapping the connections). Since 99.9999% of the recruits available to most violent groups don't have cyber skills and the impact of a cyber attack and a physical attack are the same, which method do you think will be used? The facts back this up. 99.99% of the intentional system disruption events that have occurred over the last decade have been caused through physical attack and not by cyber attack.

So, in other words, the tens billions we are going to spend on cybersecurity is mostly a waste of time/money. It's not only a waste of money, it's yet another example of how the US national security system is not producing real, tangible security for the people it expects to pay for it. The real solution to network vulnerability? Decentralized production. The tech is available. If the billions spent on cyber were spent on growing local production by building resilient communities, it wouldn't only make us safer it would likely ignite an economic Renaissance. Unfortunately, to the people running the US/EU, the long term economic success of the citizens they are supposed to represent is not even on their priority list.

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[waltky]

The energy 'wave' of the future...

DOE Looking to Harness Energy From Ocean Waves Off Hawaii
May 18, 2012 - Call it the "wave" of the future -- the far-away, fossil-fuel-free future, that is.

The U.S. Energy Department says it has half-a-million dollars to spend this year to test technologies that may be able to harness energy from ocean waves. The goal is to someday supply clean, renewable power to highly-populated coastal regions. The $500,000 in taxpayer money will support one project to deploy and test a wave-energy conversion device for one year at the U.S. Navy's Wave Energy Test Site in Kaneohe Bay, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The device must be "substantially complete and ready for testing and data collection without significant modification."

As part of its alternative-energy agenda, the Obama administration is seeking wave-power technologies that "could further develop" the nation's ocean energy resources, create new industries and new jobs in America, and secure U.S. leadership in the global race for clean energy technologies, the Energy Department said in its May 18 announcement. The Energy Department estimates that there are over 1,170 terawatt hours per year of electric generation available from wave energy off U.S. coasts, although "not all of this resource potential can realistically be developed." (The U.S. uses 4,000 terawatt hours of electricity each year.)

Industry attempts to harness energy from ocean waves have not been successful. In 2007, Pacific Gas & Electric began examining the feasibility of using energy from waves as part of its shift to renewables. But a few years later, the utility announced it was suspending its project off the coast of Humboldt County, Calif. "The decision was made after several major challenges made the project unviable at its proposed configuration and location," PG&E said in a news release posted on its website. Moreover, "costs of the project were higher than projected."

The utility said it will continue to "seek cost-effective renewable resources" for its California customers -- including wave-energy development. "The valuable lessons learned through the Humboldt project will help regulators, power providers and local communities understand and deal with the complex issues raised by this promising technology."

Source

 

[Douger]

I wonder if the oil soaked Nazi's that own your asses will send al_CIA_duh to destroy it ?

 

[TruthSeeker56]

FERC approves plans for new 300-KW ocean power plant

FERC approves plans for new 300-KW ocean power plant | Renewable Energy News Article
EASTPORT, Maine -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved plans for a 300-KW tidal energy project near Maine's Cobscook Bay, according to members of the state's congressional delegation.

The permit will allow Portland-based Ocean Renewable Power Company to install turbine generator units on the ocean floor and operate the project for eight years.

The company says it has been engineering and field-testing its turbines in waters off Eastport since 2004 and now wants to install five turbines within a 61-acre area between Goose Island and Grove Point. Each of the units is 98-feet wide and 31-feet tall.

Ocean Renewable Power says it could begin construction of the plant as early as March 2012, adding to the list of wave power plants recently approved by FERC.

A 1.05-MW project in New York's East River was approved in January 2012.

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So all forms of energy are going to be used now!


FERC licenses first tidal pilot project, 1.05-MW Roosevelt Island
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued its first hydrokinetic pilot project license for a tidal project, the 1.05-MW Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy project, on the East River in New York, N.Y.

Marine hydropower developer Verdant Power filed an application with FERC in December 2010 for the RITE project, seeking permission to install up to 30 tidal turbine-generators on the river bottom off Roosevelt Island. From 2006 to 2008, Verdant demonstrated a Free Flow System including six full-scale turbines, delivering energy to businesses in New York City.

FERC developed the pilot license process in 2008 to allow developers to test new hydrokinetic technologies, determine appropriate sites, and confirm the' environmental effects without compromising FERC oversight. Pilot licenses must be small; short-term; in an environmentally non-sensitive area; removable and able to shut down on short notice; and removed, with the site restored, before the license expires, unless a new license is issued.

FERC issued a 10-year pilot license January 23, authorizing Verdant to conduct a three-phase development:

Phase 1: three 35-kW, 5-meter-diameter axial-flow Kinetic Hydropower System turbines mounted on a single tri-frame in year 1;
Phase 2: nine additional 35-kW units mounted on three tri-frames in year 3; and
Phase 3: 18 additional 35-kW units mounted on six tri-frames in year 5.
The project also includes 480-volt underwater cables from each turbine to shoreline switchgear vaults that interconnect with a control room and interconnection points. It also includes facilities for navigation safety and operation.

Once Phase 3 is completed, the RITE project is to have annual generation of 2.4 GWh utilizing tidal flows of the East River, actually a 17-mile tidal strait connecting Long Island Sound with the Atlantic Ocean in New York Harbor. The units yaw with the flow, enabling them to generate during both ebb and flow cycles.

http://www.hydroworld.com/index/art...departments/breaking-news-hydro-currents.html

File this in the "pissing into the ocean to raise the water level" folder.

300 KW?