The Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative will soon install the nation’s first permanent facility to evaluate submerged turbines that generate electricity from tidal power, in 25 feet of water at the west end of the canal, near the Buzzards Bay Railroad Bridge. The simple trestle-like stand will make it vastly easier — and less expensive — for companies and researchers to subject their prototypes to real-world conditions.
A Minas Basin fisherman says that a half-million dollar program monitoring the impacts of tidal technology is worthless if can’t detect and measure fish mortality.
The Offshore Energy Research Association and the Nova Scotia Department of Energy are jointly funding $250,000 to support an enhanced environmental effects monitoring program at the FORCE site in the Bay of Fundy near Parrsboro.
Dynamic Systems Analysis Ltd. (DSA) has led the launch of the EcoSPRAY, a marine structure designed to gather data to verify the behaviour of floating tidal energy platforms and their moorings in high-energy turbulent tidal flows.
