Advancing Active Control of Wave Energy Converters

目前在如何实现国家波浪能机会的描述中几乎没有提供任何精确性，波浪能的承诺目前在加拿大社区，电力项目开发商和公用事业公司中是空洞的。在加拿大，关于波浪能转换器（WEC）技术长期潜力的辩论必须辅之以与当地相关的愿景，该愿景将短期和长期联系起来，并建立在以下基础上：由具有战略重要性的区域代表的原始波浪能资源的精确定义，部署在该战略区域的WEC的性能，以及详细的集成策略，详细说明如何利用间歇性波浪能。由于目前的技术、社会和经济情况使加拿大不愿投资于原型水能转换示范，因此必须通过低成本、环境友好和精确的计算机模拟来实现这一愿景。

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.