Wave-to-wave Control of Wave Energy Converter Power-take-offs

虽然波浪能转换器（WECs）经常被认为是可再生能源技术组合中的一个有价值的项目，但在对加拿大波浪能机会的描述中，很少有精确的描述。加拿大波浪资源评估的模糊性源于缺乏全面的资源数据和缺乏可访问的性能数据，这些数据定义了转换器如何利用该资源。在维多利亚大学的综合能源系统研究所，西海岸波浪倡议（WCWI）正在极大地提高对原始资源的理解，以及如何将一类WEC（被称为点吸收器）用于温哥华岛偏远的离网社区。然而，诸如WCWI之类的项目依赖于通过首个同类设备的商业WEC演示收集的转换器性能数据。这些数据是特定于设计和控制创新的，在示范阶段代表可接受的风险，因此它没有提供关于转换技术如何执行，性能如何改变和通过哪些进步，以及后期设备服务社区，区域或国家规模电力需求的潜力的广泛理解。

While Wave Energy Converters (WECs) are often cited as a valued entry in the portfolio of renewable energy technologies, very rarely is any precision provided in the description of the Canadian wave energy opportunity. Ambiguity in the evaluation of Canada's wave resource stems from a void of comprehensive resource data and a lack of accessible performance data defining how converters harness that resource. At UVic's Institute for Integrated Energy Systems, the West Coast Wave Initiative (WCWI) is dramatically improving the understanding of the raw resource and how one class of WEC, referred to as point absorbers, can be used at a remote off-grid community on Vancouver Island. However, projects such as the WCWI rely on converter performance data collected through commercial WEC demonstrations of first-of-a-kind devices. That data is specific to design and control innovations that represent acceptable risks at the demonstration stage, and consequently it does not provide a broad understanding of how conversion technology performs, how that performance can change and through what advances, and what the potential is for later stage devices to serve community, regional or national scale electricity demands.