Race Rocks Tidal Power Demonstration Project
- Race Rocks Tidal Power Demonstration Project
The Race Rocks Tidal Power Demonstration Project (official name: Pearson College - EnCana - Clean Current Tidal Power Demonstration Project at Race Rocks) is a joint project of the Lester B. Pearson College, EnCana Corporation and Clean Current Power Systems Incorporated to use tidal power at Race Rocks near Victoria, British Columbia in Canada. The Race Rocks Tidal Current Generator was installed from July to September 2006 and it was planned to replace two diesel generators at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve. It was the first in-stream tidal current generator in North America.
The water lubricated bearing system did not perform as expected, and the prototype was decommissioned in May 2007, so that the bearing system can be redesigned.cite web
publisher= Clean Current Power Systems Incorporated
url= http://www.cleancurrent.com/technology/rrproject.htm
title = The Race Rocks Tidal Energy Project
accessdate=2008-07-09]
The 65 kW direct drive variable speed permanent magnet generator with bi-directional ducted horizontal axis turbine is placed at the depth of convert|19|m|ft to convert|22|m|ft.[cite web]
author= Gouri Bhuyan, Glen Darou, Christian Blondeau, Mark Edmunds, Max Larson, Gary Bouwman
url= http://www.spok.dk/seminar/CA-OE-2007-Race%20Rocks_22.pdf
title = Integrated Tidal Current Demonstration Project at Race Rocks, British Columbia, Canada
format = PDF
date=2007-04-26
accessdate=2008-07-09] References
External links
* [http://www.racerocks.com Home page of racerocks.com website]
* [http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/energy/tidalenergy/tidalenergy.htm The Integrated Energy System ( Tidal and Solar) powering Race Rocks]
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