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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
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
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