Quantifying the Western Canadian marine energy resources and potential for large scale marine electricity production

对于加拿大太平洋公司来说，波浪能是一种主要的可再生能源，长期以来一直是商业开发的目标。尽管这种可再生能源很普遍，而且立法要求开发清洁能源，但波能没有出现在BC综合资源计划中-该省对其发电结构的长期预测(2050年)。这可以归因于缺乏整个加拿大太平洋地区的充分解析的海浪资源数据，无法确定哪些沿海地区可以优先考虑海洋能源而不是其他相互竞争的利益，以及缺乏对安装在这些地区的波能转换器(WEC)农场进行预测性能评估的技术。在拟议的方案中，将开发可用于跨越这些知识障碍并促进将波能纳入综合资源计划进程的知识、方法和计算工具。利用模拟波浪近岸(SWAN)软件建立了卑诗省全岸的波浪和潮流耦合模型。该模型将使用从将部署在温哥华岛北端的新浪潮和当前剖面仪收集的现场测量数据进行校准和验证。该团队将使用“不列颠哥伦比亚省制造”的商业软件，对不同的波能转换器进行计算机模拟研究，并对这些技术的总体性能要求进行精细的评估。该计划融合了自然资源特征和技术要求的知识，将制定一份BC海岸海洋能源适宜区的规范草案。为了估计这些地区的能源成本，将开发新的软件来计算农场的发电量以及布线和连接成本。该计划中产生的模型和数据集将被转移到不列颠哥伦比亚省水电的能源规划部门，在那里它们可以用来构建不列颠哥伦比亚省波浪能源供应堆栈的详细图景。

For Pacific Canada, wave energy is a predominant renewable energy resource that has long been targeted for commercial development. Despite the prevalence of this renewable energy resource and a legislated mandates to exploit clean energy sources, wave energy does not appear in the BC Integrated Resource Plan - the province's long term (2050) forecast for its electricity generation mix. This can be attributed to a lack of sufficiently resolved wave resource data for the entire Pacific Canada region, inability to identify coastal areas where marine energy can be prioritized over other competing interests and a void of techniques for predictive performance assessment of wave energy converter (WEC) farms installed in these areas. In the proposed program, knowledge, methods and computational tools will be developed that can be used to cross these knowledge barriers and facilitate the inclusion of wave energy in the Integrated Resource Plan process. A coupled wave and tidal current model of the full BC coast will be built using Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) software. That model will be calibrated and validated using field measurements gathered from a new wave and current profiling devices that will be deployed at the North tip of Vancouver Island. Using "made-in-BC" commercial software, the team will execute computer simulation studies of different wave energy converters and build a refined assessment of these technologies' collective performance requirements. Merging knowledge of the natural resource characteristics and the technology requirements, the program will produce a draft specification of Marine Energy Suitability Areas on the BC coast. To estimate the cost of energy generated in these areas, new software will be developed that calculates farm power output and the cabling and connection costs. The models and data sets produced in the program will be transitioned to BC Hydro's Energy Planning division where they can be used to construct a detailed picture of BC's wave energy supply stacks.