Reducing the levelized cost of electricity for river hydrokinetic turbines

加拿大已经确定了100吉瓦的河流水动力潜力（与加拿大目前的总铭牌发电能力相媲美），拟议的与新能源公司合作的海洋研究将有助于实现我们可再生能源固有的经济机会。海洋能源技术提供基本负荷发电，为取代柴油发电提供了机会。马尼托巴大学建立了加拿大水动力涡轮机测试中心（CHTTC），并与加拿大海洋公司合作，如新能源公司，在分布式规模上开发水动力涡轮机。CHTTC通过支持海洋水到线涡轮机技术的商业化，帮助加拿大公司增加其在不断扩大的全球供应链中的市场份额。新能源为全球分布式发电市场设计和开发河流和潮汐轮机。拟议的合作研究与发展项目将研究如何利用水动力技术改善分布式发电在社区中的应用，主要侧重于河流的应用。目标是改进方法和程序，以降低全球部署和运行水动力涡轮机的总体能源成本。研究人员将研究新的方法，以简化该技术的安装和操作，减少必须运送到远程位置的组件的重量，并降低系统的复杂性。重点是通过消除困难的水上操作程序，简化操作人员培训和工作场所安全程序，大大降低水上安全风险，从而降低对操作人员的要求。

With Canada having identified 100 GW of river hydrokinetic potential (rivaling Canada's current total nameplate electrical generating capacity), the proposed collaborative marine research with New Energy will contribute to the realization of economic opportunities inherent to our renewable energy resources. Marine energy technology provides base load generation, providing opportunities to displace diesel generation. The University of Manitoba established the Canadian Hydrokinetic Turbine testing Centre (CHTTC) and collaborates with Canadian marine companies, like New Energy, that develop hydrokinetic turbines at the distributed scale. The CHTTC assists Canadian companies to increase their market share in the expanding global supply chain by supporting commercialization of marine water-to-wire turbine technology. New Energy designs and develops river and tidal marine turbines for distributed generation power markets worldwide. The proposed Collaborative Research and Development project will investigate ways to improve the application of distributed generation in communities using hydrokinetic technologies, focusing mainly on river applications. The objective is to improve methods and procedures to reduce the overall levelized cost of energy for deploying and operating hydrokinetic turbines worldwide. Research will be on investigating new approaches to simplify how to install and operate this technology, decrease the weight of components that must be shipped to remote locations, and reduce system complexities. Focus will be on decreasing operator requirements by eliminating difficult on-water procedures, simplifying operator training and workplace safety procedures, and considerably reducing on-water safety risks.