Introducing OREG: Ocean Renewable Energy Group An emerging focus on Ocean Renewable Energy for Canad

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Introducing OREG Ocean Renewable Energy Group
An emerging focus on OceanRenewable Energy for
CanadaPresented by Chris M Campbell
Ph.DExecutive Director
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Canadian OE in the news

• A humpback whale trapped by a tidal barrage!

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Fact Nova Scotia since 1980s

• 20 Mw

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Prospects

• Pollution Probe - ca 20,000MW
• National Energy Board - 20,000MW

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British Columbia Task Force

• Alternate Energy and Power Technology
• Co-Chairs
• CEO Xantrex - Mossadiq Umedaly
• Member of BC legislature - Barry Penner
• By Sept 1, 2005, enabling strategy for
• Remote power solutions for rural communities
• Sustainable urban practices
• Sustainable urban transport
• Sustainable grid solution
• Large-scale clean power production to generate
  and deliver electricity to the western North
  American power market

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Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers-
Renewable Energy Working Group

• May 3-4 2005 - Ottawa
• Issues pertinent to development of a renewable
  energy strategy for Canada
• Key actions to promote further expansion of the
  WE sector in Canada
• Fall 2005 Meeting of ministers
• All within a context of an emerging Project
  Green - Moving ahead on Climate Change

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Pacific NorthWest Economic Region - PNWER

• 9 States and Provinces
• Discussion at June 2004 meeting
• RESOLUTION 2004-8
• Just as the Pacific NW plays a leadership role in
  the hydrogen .. goal of 20 from renewables by
  2020
• Action Items
• 1. PNWER urges Federal governments of Canada and
  the United States to implement a national Ocean
  Energy Strategy.
• 2. PNWER recommends to both federal governments
  to promote the development and use of Ocean
  Energy technologies.

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About OREG

• The Ocean Renewable Energy Group (OREG) is a
  collaboration between industry, academia
  government to mobilise the proven Canadian
  project implementation value chain, together with
  new and emerging ocean technologies, to provide
  production solutions for ocean-based renewable
  energy to a rapidly emerging world market. It is
• Ocean energy technology companies
• Ocean power generation companies
• Ocean technology and fabrication companies
• Ocean engineering researchers and academia
• NR Canada, Industry Canada, NRC, WD
• BC Min EM, BC Innovation Council
• BC Hydro and Powertech Labs
• Started in British Columbia but assuming national
  role

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Ocean Renewable Energy
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Target 2525 by 25

• Pilot plants with BC Hydro Test EPAs in 2007
• By 2025
• 25,000 MW Canadian capacity
• 10,000 jobs in supply, service and operation
• 25 billion in equipment and service sales
• Accelerators
• Government focus
• Investment
• A home market and infrastructure support
• Centre of excellence/clustering
• Issues
• RD -gt Commercialization -gt Adoption
• Procurement/pre-commercial strategies
• Utility interconnection
• Environmental assessment/permits

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OREGs Key Goals

• Provide leadership, support, and be a focal point
  to the nascent industry
• Represent the interests capabilities of the
  Canadian ocean energy community in
  capacity-building and policy development.
• Form strategic alliances with other global
  organizations to accelerate technology transfer
• Educate sources of capital to facilitate
  commercialization of Canadian technologies

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OREG strategy and action plan

• Creating Champions
• Development of public and policy profile for
  ocean energy
• Supply chain development
• Infrastructure development
• Research and development capacity
• Development and demonstration facilities
• Commercialisation framework
• Financial development
• BC and federal RD funding
• Climate for investment in technologies
• Testing and demonstration
• Commercialization
• Export development
• Energy And technology
• Market Channel development

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OREG RD Proposal

• Ten essential RD Themes
• Assessment of resources in BC and on the East
  Coast
• Pioneer wave power and tidal current power test
  sites in BC,
• Power quality improvement through hybrid
  processes
• Virtual modeling of converting wave/tidal current
  to electricity

• The advancement of new technologies
• Grid interconnection issues
• Engineering reliability
• The integration of ocean energy with other
  renewable technologies, such as offshore wind
• Using ocean energy to produce compressed hydrogen
• Networking among RD centres.

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OREG action groups

• Ocean Energy Atlas
• Build on past BC work
• Incorporate results for EPRI/Nova Scotia/New
  Brunswick work
• National Network of Excellence
• Fits with ocean engineering and technology focus
  on east and west coasts
• Exploits network of existing development and
  testing facilities

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Can we create a supportive climate?

• By focusing funding for ocean energy R, DD and
  commercialisation?
• Focus existing or new programmes
• By creation of a Centre of Excellence in OE?
• Collaborative RD programme (OREG proposal)
• Research chairs graduate scholarships
• Matching for CFI funding
• By strategic environmental assessments?
• Generic for wave and current
• For pioneer sites/projects
• By clarification of permitting and approvals?
• One window (Zoning, EA, leasing etc)?
• Utility energy purchase agreements

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Can we create a route to market?

• WPPI -gt RPPI
• By underwriting grid connection investment
• Postage-stamp transmission rates for
  distributed/remote generation capacity
• By ensuring that access and cost to connect do
  not discriminate against ocean energy
• Educate the regulators to ensure enabling of
  connection
• Ensure that utilities and regulators treat
  emerging ocean renewable capacity on the same
  basis as expansion of any existing interconnected
  capacity

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Can we create a favourable climate for investment?

• By providing tax/revenue incentives for power
  development and purchase?
• Tax credits to ocean energy purchasers
• Adopt a green credits/tags system
• Set a policy objective to guide regulators and
  utilities
• Provide/obtain financial mechanisms as incentives
  for initial purchases of pre commercial power
• Provide incentives for investment in ocean
  energy?
• Tax credits/Venture Capital programmes
• Mimic incentives available to OG and mining

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Canadian demonstrations

• Wave
• College of the North Atlantic, Burin NL
• Pumped seawater - Summer 2005
• Tidal Current
• Clean Current/Encana/Pearson College
• Electricity for local use - summer 2006
• Others emerging??
• AquaEnergy - wave electricity
• Blue Energy - tidal current electricity
• Energetech - wave electricity
• Sieber - wave, electricity or water
• New Energy - tidal current electricity
• Multi-user demo sites??

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Aqua Energy Canada Ltd.
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Blue Energy Canada Inc.
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Canoe Pass Tidal Energy Corp.

• Pilot site Canoe Pass foot of Seymour Narrows
  potential 3.5 to 4.5Mw

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Clean Current Tidal Power
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College of the North Atlantic - Burin Peninsula
Newfoundland Labrador
A robust, easily deployed, low-cost, wave-powered
pump to deliver sea water to shore-based
aquaculture facilities
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Energetech
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New Energy Corporation Inc
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Sieber Energy Inc.
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Contact OREG

• www.OREG.ca (still rather new)
• jjohnson_at_novuscom.net
• nigel_at_sieberenergy.com
• knighter_at_telus.net
• ChrisCampbell_at_telus.net
• awalls_at_bcinnovationcouncil.com
• Gouri.Bhuyan_at_powertechlabs.co