Advancing Active Control of Wave Energy Converters

目前，对如何实现国家波浪能源机会的描述几乎没有提供任何准确的信息，而且目前对加拿大社区、电力项目开发商和公用事业公司来说，波浪能源的承诺听起来很空洞。在加拿大，关于波能转换器(WEC)技术长期潜力的辩论必须辅之以当地相关的愿景，该愿景在短期和长期之间架起一座桥梁：准确定义具有战略重要性的区域所代表的原始波能资源，部署在该战略区域的WEC的性能，以及详细说明如何开发间歇性波能的详细整合战略。由于目前的技术、社会和经济环境阻碍了加拿大对原型WEC演示的投资，这一愿景必须通过低成本、环境友好和精确的计算机模拟来实现。

Little to no precision is currently provided in the description of how the national wave energy opportunity can be realized, and the promise of wave energy currently rings hollow with Canadian communities, power project developers, and utilities. In Canada, debate on the long term potential of wave energy converter (WEC) technology has to be complemented with a locally relevant vision that bridges the short and long term and is built on: a precise definition of the raw wave energy resource as represented by a region of strategic importance, the performance of WECs deployed in that strategic region, and detailed integration strategies that detail how intermittent wave power can be exploited. Since present day technical, social and economic circumstances dissuade Canadian investment in prototype WEC demonstrations, this vision must be generated through low cost, environmentally benign and precise computer simulations.