OES Annual Report 2012 - Ocean Energy Systems
OES Annual Report 2012 - Ocean Energy Systems OES Annual Report 2012 - Ocean Energy Systems
55 04 / COUNTRY REPORTS ÌÌ Device design and verification methodologies Ì Ì Ì Methods of measuring and assessing effects on the marine environment Ì Project data and methods for life cycle cost analysis Workshop I of Annex V, Open Water Testing, was held in October 2012 in conjunction with the International Conference on Ocean Energy in Dublin, Ireland. Fifteen of the nineteen OES countries are participating in Annex V, and eleven of those countries participated in Workshop I. The Workshop provided data exchange on test facilities currently operating, facilities being planned or under development, and experiences of device developers that have performed open water testing. The resulting report will detail the Workshop discussions including the operational and business challenges of test facilities, the needs of device developers for the testing sites, and planning available test sites so as to allow technology to proceed quickly. TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION In 2012 the ocean energy industry in the United States saw several deployments of pre-commercial scale devices. During that time three of these projects received the first ever hydrokinetic licenses from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the future build-out of their commercial scale projects. The following section details these deployments and licenses. For additional information on MHK technologies in the U.S. and abroad see DOE’s Marine and Hydrokinetic Technology Database http://www. water.energy.gov/hydrokinetic/default.aspx. On August 13, 2012 FERC granted Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) a commercial license for the full buildout of the 1.5 MW, grid-connected Reedsport OPT Wave Park Project (P-12713). This is the first commercial license issued for a wave power project in the U.S. The license provides approval for the deployment of up to ten grid-connected OPT devices for 35 years. OPT is working through the permitting and licensing process to expand this site to 50 MW capacity. This expansion project is called Phase III, and received a Preliminary Permit on March 15, 2011 (P-13666). From 2009 to 2011 OPT tested its 40 kW PowerBuoy in 30 m depth, approximately three-quarters of a mile offshore at the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Base on Oahu, becoming the first grid-connected wave energy device in the U.S. OPT’s 150 kW WEC device (PB150), initially scheduled to deploy in 2012, was plagued by weather delays and will therefore launch in 2013. This project will collect detailed data during two years of operation. Additionally, OPT plans to test their utility scale 500 kW device (PB500) in early 2013. On December 22, 2011 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation granted Verdant Power a Water Quality Certification Permit for the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project. On January 23, 2012 FERC granted Verdant Power a 10-year Hydrokinetic Pilot Project License (1.05 MW), making it the first licensed tidal power project in the U.S. The project is being developed in a phased approach to include up to 30 turbines providing 1 MW of power. Following the successful testing of Verdant’s 4 th generation Free Flow Kinetic Hydropower device at the RITE project from 2006-2009, Verdant’s 5 th generation device is planned for installation at that site as well. On September 7, 2012 Verdant completed an in-water dynamometry test, with over a quarter million valid data points recorded. The dynamometer turbine was removed the following week and transported by barge to Verdant’s site in Bayonne, NJ. Data from blade strain gage data recorders in the rotor hub are being processed and analyzed in conjunction with the other dynamometry data to inform ongoing numerical modeling efforts. On February 27, 2012 Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) received an 8-year Pilot Project License from FERC for the 300 kW Cobscook Bay project in Maine, making it the second licensed tidal power project in the U.S. On April 26, 2012 the Maine Public Utilities Commission approved the primary contract terms of power purchase agreements (PPAs) for the ORPC Maine Tidal Energy Project. These will be the first long-term PPAs for tidal energy in the United States. On July 24, 2012 ORPC held the dedication ceremony for the project, making it the first commercial tidal energy project in the U.S. The company’s first TidGen TM TGU device was successfully deployed on August 14, 2012 and grid-connected the following month.
56 Public Utility District No.1 of Snohomish County (SnoPUD) filed a Final License Application with FERC on March 1, 2012 and is awaiting FERC approval for the Admiralty Inlet project (Everett, Washington). The project proposes to deploy, operate, monitor, and evaluate two Open-Centre Turbines, developed and manufactured by OpenHydro Group Ltd., in Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound. In 2012 Northwest Energy Innovations (NWEI), in partnership with other industry leaders from New Zealand, verified the ocean wavelength functionality of the Wave Energy Technology-New Zealand (WET- NZ) device through wave tank testing and a controlled open sea deployment of their 1:2 scale device. The WET-NZ was deployed on August 22, 2012 at the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) off the coast of Oregon. Six weeks of successful testing were completed and the device was removed. Following testing and the award of a DOE grant, the WET-NZ device will begin a 1 year test at the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site (WETS) located at the Marine Corps Base on Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. This past year Resolute Marine Energy (RME) deployed a surge wave energy converter at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina. The full scale, TRL 5/6 device was deployed for approximately one month in November of 2012. RME is continuing the development of their technology and plans to test the device again in early FY13. Vortex Hydro performed open water testing of a hydrofoil device in the St. Clair River in Port Huron, Michigan. The device was deployed in September of 2012 for two weeks to test enhancements to the energy capture and efficiency of the device. In 2012 FloDesign completed a short demonstration test of their device with funding from DOE’s SBIR/ STTR Program. The developer conducted two in-water demonstrations with their Mixer Ejector Hydrokinetic Turbine device (a ducted turbine) at the University of New Hampshire’s Tidal Energy Site and in the Muskeget Channel in Massachusetts. Oscilla Power was selected for a $1 million DOE SBIR Phase II award to further develop its iMEC TM wave energy harvesting technology with testing of a sub-scale system in late 2013 and early 2014 in open water off the coast of New Hampshire. The technology uses reverse magnetostrictive technology to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy without moving parts. Dehlsen Associates, LLC demonstrated its Centipod wave energy converter off the coast of Santa Barbara, California in late November. This test did not include power generation, but data gathered from the test will inform the design and construction of a larger scale device that will be tested in early 2013. Testing Infrastructure Development Test facilities are intended to offer a wide range of testing services that address both technical and nontechnical barriers of MHK systems. By spearheading the development of a testing infrastructure, DOE ensures that many more prototypes from a diverse set of technology developers can be tested than if each developer had to carry the cost of developing, permitting, and installing its own test facility. In this way, superior technology performance and design will determine which technologies will succeed, rather than those able to garner the most funding. In 2012 the United States’ testing infrastructure advanced significantly. Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) – Wave and Tidal Test Facility NNMREC completed permitting requirements for an open water wave energy test site in Reedsport, Oregon in 2012, and on August 22, scientists from NNMREC demonstrated a new $1.5 million testing device called the Ocean Sentinel. Resembling a bright yellow dock equipped with an array of measuring instruments, the Ocean Sentinel floats on the water’s surface and is currently set up in a 1 square-mile test site two miles northwest of Yaquina Head off the Oregon coast. The Ocean Sentinel is designed for testing wave energy converters and provides power analysis, data acquisition, environmental monitoring, and an active converter interface to control power dissipation to an on-boar electrical load. ANNUAL REPORT 2012
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04 / COUNTRY REPORTS<br />
ÌÌ<br />
Device design and verification methodologies<br />
Ì<br />
Ì<br />
Ì Methods of measuring and assessing effects on the marine environment<br />
Ì Project data and methods for life cycle cost analysis<br />
Workshop I of Annex V, Open Water Testing, was held in October <strong>2012</strong> in conjunction with the International<br />
Conference on <strong>Ocean</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> in Dublin, Ireland. Fifteen of the nineteen <strong>OES</strong> countries are participating in<br />
Annex V, and eleven of those countries participated in Workshop I. The Workshop provided data exchange on<br />
test facilities currently operating, facilities being planned or under development, and experiences of device<br />
developers that have performed open water testing. The resulting report will detail the Workshop discussions<br />
including the operational and business challenges of test facilities, the needs of device developers for the<br />
testing sites, and planning available test sites so as to allow technology to proceed quickly.<br />
TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION<br />
In <strong>2012</strong> the ocean energy industry in the United States saw several deployments of pre-commercial scale<br />
devices. During that time three of these projects received the first ever hydrokinetic licenses from the<br />
Federal <strong>Energy</strong> Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the future build-out of their commercial scale projects.<br />
The following section details these deployments and licenses. For additional information on MHK<br />
technologies in the U.S. and abroad see DOE’s Marine and Hydrokinetic Technology Database http://www.<br />
water.energy.gov/hydrokinetic/default.aspx.<br />
On August 13, <strong>2012</strong> FERC granted <strong>Ocean</strong> Power Technologies (OPT) a commercial license for the full buildout<br />
of the 1.5 MW, grid-connected Reedsport OPT Wave Park Project (P-12713). This is the first commercial<br />
license issued for a wave power project in the U.S. The license provides approval for the deployment of<br />
up to ten grid-connected OPT devices for 35 years. OPT is working through the permitting and licensing<br />
process to expand this site to 50 MW capacity. This expansion project is called Phase III, and received a<br />
Preliminary Permit on March 15, 2011 (P-13666). From 2009 to 2011 OPT tested its 40 kW PowerBuoy in 30<br />
m depth, approximately three-quarters of a mile offshore at the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps Base on Oahu,<br />
becoming the first grid-connected wave energy device in the U.S. OPT’s 150 kW WEC device (PB150),<br />
initially scheduled to deploy in <strong>2012</strong>, was plagued by weather delays and will therefore launch in 2013. This<br />
project will collect detailed data during two years of operation. Additionally, OPT plans to test their utility<br />
scale 500 kW device (PB500) in early 2013.<br />
On December 22, 2011 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation granted Verdant<br />
Power a Water Quality Certification Permit for the Roosevelt Island Tidal <strong>Energy</strong> (RITE) Project. On January<br />
23, <strong>2012</strong> FERC granted Verdant Power a 10-year Hydrokinetic Pilot Project License (1.05 MW), making<br />
it the first licensed tidal power project in the U.S. The project is being developed in a phased approach<br />
to include up to 30 turbines providing 1 MW of power. Following the successful testing of Verdant’s<br />
4 th generation Free Flow Kinetic Hydropower device at the RITE project from 2006-2009, Verdant’s 5 th<br />
generation device is planned for installation at that site as well. On September 7, <strong>2012</strong> Verdant completed<br />
an in-water dynamometry test, with over a quarter million valid data points recorded. The dynamometer<br />
turbine was removed the following week and transported by barge to Verdant’s site in Bayonne, NJ. Data<br />
from blade strain gage data recorders in the rotor hub are being processed and analyzed in conjunction<br />
with the other dynamometry data to inform ongoing numerical modeling efforts.<br />
On February 27, <strong>2012</strong> <strong>Ocean</strong> Renewable Power Company (ORPC) received an 8-year Pilot Project License<br />
from FERC for the 300 kW Cobscook Bay project in Maine, making it the second licensed tidal power<br />
project in the U.S. On April 26, <strong>2012</strong> the Maine Public Utilities Commission approved the primary contract<br />
terms of power purchase agreements (PPAs) for the ORPC Maine Tidal <strong>Energy</strong> Project. These will be the<br />
first long-term PPAs for tidal energy in the United States. On July 24, <strong>2012</strong> ORPC held the dedication<br />
ceremony for the project, making it the first commercial tidal energy project in the U.S. The company’s<br />
first TidGen TM TGU device was successfully deployed on August 14, <strong>2012</strong> and grid-connected the following<br />
month.