Experience with EnCurrent

Power Generation Systems

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ICOE 2014
November 6, 2014
Halifax, Nova Scotia
 Who We Are
New Energys vision is to provide clean, reliable, affordable,
renewable, and environmentally responsible power to the world.

New Energy is achieving this vision primarily through the

development and provision of hydrokinetic power generation
systems based on its EnCurrent vertical axis turbine; unit sizes
range from 5 kW to 250 kW

Systems are deployed with little environmental impact across a

range of current and potential locations (rivers, canals, industrial
outflows and tides) without the requirement for dams or major civil
works
 The Challenge

1.2 -1.6 billion people worldwide are without access to

electricity for basic needs such as lighting and refrigeration
Remote communities currently served with costly and
polluting diesel power are seeking clean cost effective renewable
energy solutions
Jurisdictions mandated with minimum Renewable Portfolio
Standards require renewable solutions to meet those standards
Current renewable energy sources are intermittent and/or
unpredictable making it difficult for these sources to be used
for base-load power
 EnCurrent Power Generation
System
Cross flow design generates lift as water
passes over foil surface
Simple robust design with power
equipment above water (floating system)
Flexible deployment floating, fixed, free
flow, ultra low head; independent of flow
direction
 Test Program

Gen 2 5 kW Sicamous,
25 kW Sicamous, British Columbia
British Columbia

25 kW Point du Bois, Manitoba 5 kW Seven Sisters, Manitoba (CHTTC)

5 kW System - Yukon River, Alaska

5 kW LF system installed at a remote village in central Alaska

ABS Alaskan (local reseller) undertook all aspects of installation and
deployment
First micro grid-connected hydrokinetic project in the US
25 kW System, Yukon River, Alaska
2-25 kW Systems - Hydro
Supply Canal, India
Ringmo, Dolpa, Nepal
Ringmo Transporting Hardware
Extremely remote 3
days to nearest road
All pieces carried in by
hand
Generator heaviest item
at 150 lbs
 Ringmo Installation

Locally built gabion structure

to channel water through
turbine
New Energy assembled drive
train
Ringmo Control Shack
Control room required for power
conditioning equipment
Locals built control shack from
rock, clay, and wood
All materials supplied locally
Ringmo Power Conditioning
Equipment
Ringmo in Operation
Powering a School
Provide year round power for a
school in Myanmar
Two 5 kW floating demonstration
systems to be installed in adjacent
river
Installation scheduled for January
2015, volume orders to follow
Canoe Pass, British Columbia

500 kW Tidal Demonstration

on Vancouver Island
All permitting and regulatory
approvals in place
Causeway to be removed to
install two 250 kW turbines
Site construction underway,
installation scheduled for Q1
2015
Canoe Pass Causeway
Canoe Pass Overlay
250 kW Conceptual Layout
 Summary
On our way to realizing our vision to providing
clean reliable power to the world
First generation systems provided the experience
necessary to develop field hardened designs
Moving into commercial production of
Generation 2 5 kW Direct Drive systems; 25
kW systems to follow
Product line extended with the development of
the 250 kW tidal units