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

对于加拿大太平洋地区来说，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，但波浪能并没有出现在BC省综合资源计划中——该省的长期（2050年）发电组合预测。这可归因于整个加拿大太平洋地区缺乏充分解决的波浪资源数据，无法确定沿海地区，海洋能源可以优先于其他竞争利益，并且缺乏对安装在这些地区的波浪能转换器（WEC）农场进行预测性能评估的技术。在拟议的计划中，将开发可用于跨越这些知识障碍的知识、方法和计算工具，并促进将波浪能纳入综合资源计划过程。利用模拟近岸波浪（SWAN）软件，建立了不列颠哥伦比亚省全海岸的波浪和潮流耦合模型。该模型将使用从部署在温哥华岛北端的新波浪和电流分析设备收集的现场测量数据进行校准和验证。利用“不列颠哥伦比亚省制造”的商业软件，该团队将对不同的波浪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评估。结合自然资源特征和技术要求的知识，该计划将产生不列颠哥伦比亚省海岸海洋能源适宜区规范草案。为了估算这些地区的能源成本，将开发新的软件来计算农场的电力输出以及电缆和连接成本。该项目产生的模型和数据集将过渡到卑诗水电的能源规划部门，在那里它们可以用来构建卑诗省波浪能源供应堆栈的详细图片。

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.