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I M P L E M E N T I N G A G R E E M E N T O N O C E A N E N E R G Y S Y S T E M S A N N E X I : I N F O R M A T I O N C O L L A T I O N A N D D I S S E M I N A T I O N

Delegates from the member countries of the IEAImplementing Agreement on Ocean Energy Systemsparticipated in the 19th Executive Committee (ExCo)Meeting, in Dublin, Ireland (30 Sept – 1 Oct 2010), andexchanged information on governmental initiatives,R&D activities and technology demonstration on oceanenergy.

Annex I of the OES-IA work program is the centralinformation collation and dissemination Annex on thetechnical, economic, environmental and social aspectsof ocean energy systems. It also contributes to thedefinition of future priorities for the ImplementingAgreement as a whole. This bulletin highlights the2010 achievements on ocean energy presented in the19th ExCo meeting.

Indonesia was invited as an observer country.

Introduction Member countries

2001 Denmark

Portugal

United Kingdom

2002 Ireland

Japan

2003 Canada

2005 USA

2006 Belgium

2007 Germany

Mexico

Norway

2008 Spain

Italy

New Zealand

Sweden

2009 Australia

2010 Korea

South Africa

October 2010

MISSION  To facilitate and  co‐ordinate ocean energy  research, development and demonstration through international  co‐operation and information exchange, leading to the deployment and commercialisation of sustainable,  efficient, reliable,  cost‐competitive and environmentally sound ocean energy technologies. 

Australia Tom Denniss, Oceanlinx

Although there is no government program specifically for ocean energy in Australia, the Department of Resources, Energy, and Tourism has expressed a desire to see an Australian ocean energy industry association established.

Ocean energy activity in Australia continues to increase:Ocean Power Technologies is developing a project inPortland with funding from the Australian Government. Oceanlinx’s 1:3 scale floating wave energy device - the MK3PC – was tested for 3 months, in 2010, and operated successfully until its moorings were damaged in extreme sea conditions in May. The first ocean deployment of BioPower Systems technology is planned to occur near Port Fairy, Victoria, and currently the conversion modules are being tested in a factory. Wave Rider Energy Pty Ltd is planning to launch a pilot plant in South Australia. Carnegie Corporation continues to develop its 5MW project off Garden Island, in Western Australia, and has also announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a three-stage 15MW project on La Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Perpetuwave has developed a 1:4 scaled concept prototype, which has been tested in bay type wave conditions in Australia.

New ZealandJohn Huckerby, AWATEA The New  Zealand Government  committed  to  the 4th  round ofthe Marine Energy Deployment Fund (MEDF), which is expectedto  be  announced  very  soon,  and  is  continuing  to  support  theAotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association. The Governmentcontinues to fund three marine energy projects: The WaveEnergy Technology – New Zealand (WET-NZ) R&D programconducted by two parties, Industrial Research Limited andPower Projects Limited, and two other R&D projectsconducted by the National Institute of Water andAtmospheric Research (NIWA) on tidal energy optimizationand on extreme wave statistics.

WET-NZ’s 2 kW 1:4 scale prototype was deployed in lateNovember 2009. Final design for the 20 kW 1:2 scaleprototype has been completed and building is planned tostart in November. WET-NZ has been granted resourceconsents for two sites in New Zealand. Other companieswhich have announced plans for consent applications orreceived consents include Energy Pacifica, Neptune Powerand Crest Energy Kaipara Limited.

Chatham Islands Marine Energy is waiting for resourceconsent. The project consists in a Wavegen LIMPET typedevice to be installed on the main Chatham Island (800 kmeast of NZ) and was granted NZ$ 2.16 million in the 3rdRound of MEDF funding in July 2010.

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Korea Keyyong Hong, KORDI

The ocean energy research activity in Korea has beenincreased steeply in recent years mainly because ofinvestment expansion in renewable energy of KoreanGovernment. The total 2010 Budget for Ocean EnergyR&D was 14,780 mWon. In Korea, a National Strategyfor Ocean Energy Development Promotion has beenlaunched based on 3 stages of development for short(2008-2012), medium (2013-2020) and long term(2021-2030) projects.

Several wave projects are presently running withfunding from the Ministry of Land, Transport andMaritime Affairs (MLTM) or from the Ministry ofKnowledge Economy (MKE). The Yongsoo 500kWOscillating Water Column (OWC) pilot plant developedby the Maritime & Ocean Engineering ResearchInstitute (MOERI) is expected to be installed on Jejuisland in 2011; other MOERI projects include a 250 kWovertopping device named “Reef with Vanes”, a 3-yearresearch project that will end in 2010 and a 300 kW“Pendulum WEC” project. Two further prototypes areplanned for 2011, a floating device named “VariableLiquid Column Oscillator” (KEPRI), and a floating device“Hydraulic Pumping WEC” (Taekyung Ind.).

The 254 MW Sihwa tidal barrage power plant, which wasinitiated in 2005, is expected to be operational in 2011.

JapanYasuyuki Ikegami, Saga University

An important new initiative in 2010 was the development of a technology Roadmap for Ocean Energy prepared bythe Japanese Ocean Energy Association (OEA-J) which includes targets for wave, current & tidal and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC).

Another governmental initiative was the release of the White Paper on Renewable Energy Technology by the NewEnergy and Industrial Technology DevelopmentOrganization (NEDO), in which wave energy and OTEC are two of the 10 key topics of the document. In 2009, NEDOstarted the program “Advanced Research on Ocean Renewable Energy”, in order to support the study and development of ocean energy for the first time.

IndonesiaProf. Mukhtasor, National Energy Council

The National Energy Council (NEC) is reviewing the current energy policy and intends to increase the role ofocean energy in the energy mix for 2010-2050. The Agency for Assessment and Application of Technologies(BPPT) coordinated by the Ministry of Research andTechnology has carried out research on wave and tidal current energy systems. The Indonesian Ocean Energy Association (IOEA) is currently being formed to foster R&D on ocean energy.

The ocean energy resources in Indonesia have been assessed: more than 15 straits or channels have been identified as potential location for tidal current energysystems; three locations are candidate for ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) developments.

Recent developments in ocean energy include a marinecurrent 2 kW project operated by the Indonesian Hydrodynamics Laboratory in Flores; the 100 kW Kobold prototype from Ponte di Archimede to be installed in East Lombok, a 100 kW OTEC project in North Bali and an Oscillating Water Column (OWC) in Yogyakarta, coordinated by BPPT.

Estimated Ocean Energy Resources in Korea

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Italy António Fiorentino, Ponte di Archimede

In the scope of a joint project set up in 2005 betweenPonte di Archimede International and UNIDO, a Koboldturbine project is being developed in Indonesia, to beinstalled near Lombok Island.

Further, the development of the next generation ofKobold turbine is pursued by the BLUETEC project, basedon four 250 kW rated Kobold turbines (total 1 MW)installed on a floating platform. The first BLUETEC plantis planned to be installed in the Strait of Messina and, ina second phase, towed and installed in Pentland Firth(North of Scotland).

Portugal Ana Brito Melo, Wave Energy Centre

Two years after the official announcement of the PilotZone for wave energy deployment, the contract betweenthe government and REN (the Transmission SystemOperator) was signed on 20 October 2010.

A new initiative by EDP, EFACEC Engineering, MartiferRenewables and MIT Portugal was launched in 2009 tostimulate the collective efficiency, the “Competitivenessand Technology Centre for Energy” – ENERGYIN. One ofthe “anchor” projects of this initiative is the creation ofthe Offshore Energy Institute, initiated in 2010.

The 400kW Oscillating Water Column (OWC) pilot planton the Island of Pico, Azores, has fed increasing amountsof electricity into the electrical grid, yielding more than850 operational hours in 2010. It continues to be aplatform of world-wide significance for the technologylearning process, R&D activities and training. The plant isdesigned to host a second turbo-generation group,which made it possible to be included in a Europeaninfrastructures network (MariNET) of large importance tothe sector.

Eneólica initiated a wave energy project in Peniche(Central Portugal) with the Finnish technology WaveRollerwith European funding. AW-Energy started theconstruction of the prototype and baseline environmentalstudies were initiated in 2010 by the Wave Energy Centre.The project has strong local support of the Municipalityof Peniche, the “Capital of Surf”.

SpainJosé Luis Villate, Tecnalia

The Spanish Government has recently announced targets for ocean energy in the “Renewable Energy Plan 2011-2020”: The first 10MW of installed ocean power are expected by 2016 and a target of 100MW by 2020.

An important R&D project – OceanLider - was approved at the end of 2009, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. This 30M€ project is led by “Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción” and covers several R&D activities: resource assessment, O&M, technology, grid connection and environmental aspects. The project has duration of 40 months and 20 industrial partners and 24 research centres are participating.

A new EU FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme) funded project – The Marine Renewable Integrated Application Platform (MARINA PLATFORM)) - led by the Spanish company ACCIONA-Energy started in January 2010.

Several wave energy projects are still in progress: the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (bimep), Mutriku OWC breakwater and the “PIPO” wave energy converter on the Canary Islands. IBERDROLA is very active in demonstration wave and tidal projects in the United Kingdom.

BLUETEC conceptwith Kobold turbines

3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION on

Ocean Energy The International Conference on Ocean Energy is organised every two years. The third edition of this conference, ICOE 2010 was held in Bilbao, Spain at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre from 6 – 8 October 2010, organized by EVE and Tecnalia. This event was sponsored by the OES-IA. At this conference, the main players in the field of wave and tidal energy technology, as well as leaders of companies, engaged in offshore wind and marine activities, shared progresses in the field.

Please visit the site at: http://www.icoe2010bilbao.net

www.ewtec.org

The Ninth European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference and exhibition (EWTEC 2011), will be held from 5-9 September 2011 at the University of Southampton, UK.

Norway Harald Rikheim, Statkraft

Norway has no special policies or programs dedicated toocean energy, but ocean energy is included in moregeneral renewable energy policies and programs. APrototype of Hydra Tidal (Morild) was launched on theLofoten Islands in September 2010 with 4 M€ funding byEnova and Innovation Norway. Also Langlee Wave Powerreceived support from the Research Council of Norwayfor its development.

Hammerfest Strøm is a long time player in the tidalenergy scene. After 4 years of operation of the 300 kWHammerfest Strøm’s tidal device installed in 2003, anupgraded prototype was installed in the summer of 2009.The company is now based in Scotland and has recentlyreceived Carbon Trust funding for their 1 MW prototypewhich will be tested at the European Marine EnergyCentre (EMEC).

Statkraft Osmotic Power prototype started operation in2009 and the next step is a 2 MW pilot installation.

Vattenfall, together with Tussa Kraft, is testing theSwedish SeaBased concept in Runde, on the west coast.The new Fred Olsen “BOLT” full scale device isundergoing sea trials off the Norwegian coast.

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SwedenSusanna Widstrand, Swedish Energy Agency

Progress in wave energy during 2010 has beensupported by the Swedish Energy Agency. The second phase of the Centre for Renewable Electrical Conversion(4.85 M€ fund for 2009 – 2013) led by Uppsala University, involving basic research in wave and marine currents, is now very active.

The wave energy Lysekil project (2006 – 2010), consisting of ten linear generators, also led by Uppsala University, has presently four linear generators installed. The wave energy Islandsberg project (2007-2010), led by Seabased AB (4x20 kW and 1x50 kW) to be grid connected, has just launched one generator.

DenmarkKim Nielsen, Ramboll

Important initiatives in 2010 for wave energy development include the Danish Test site for Wave Energy Conversion (DanWEC), set up in Hanstholm, and the creation of Lindø Offshore Renewables Center (LORC), a science and development centre for offshore renewables.

Several Danish wave energy companies are pursuing their developments: Wave Star A/S prototype has been operating in the North Sea in Hanstholm during 2010. Floating Power Plant started a second test period in the spring of 2010 including the installation of 3 wind turbines for testing the combination of wind and wave power. The Dexa wave energy device has operated during 10 months in Nissum Bredning and presently a larger scale model is prepared for testing at DanWEC Hanstholm. A 1:10 scale model of the Leacon device is under construction and is now expected to be installed in the spring of 2011 in Nissum Bredning.

Poseidon - Combines Wind and waves

Courtesy of Floating Power Plant technology (www.floatingpowerplant.com )

Hammerfest Strøm

IrelandEoin Sweeney, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)

Ireland has a National Strategy for Ocean Energy, whichwas prepared in 2006 by the Marine Institute and SEAI:Targets for the use of ocean energy have increased frominitially 200 MW to 500 MW by 2020.

SEAI is developing a full scale ocean site, which isproposed to be located west of Belmullet, Mayo – TheAtlantic Marine Energy Test Site (AMETS). A 1:4 scalewave energy test site has been in place in Galway Bay. Itis also being planned to relocate and expand theUniversity College Cork Hydraulics and MaritimeResearch Centre (HMRC) as part of the new Maritime andEnergy Research Campus in Cork.

During 2010 a Strategic Environmental Assessment ofWave, Tidal and Offshore Wind Development in Irishwaters was completed. Other developments in Irelandinclude two studies: “Modelling connections for OffshoreWind in the Irish Sea” and “Economic Benefits of OceanEnergy Development”.

Further developments include the “Review ofEngineering & Specialist Support Requirements for theOcean Energy Sector”, published in June 2009,commissioned by the Sustainable Energy Authority ofIreland’s Ocean Energy Development Unit (OEDU).

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United Kingdom Alan Morgan, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for Wave andTidal energy in English and Welsh waters is underway andshould be completed early 2011. DECC and the ScottishGovernment undertook a study on the Economics of waveand tidal energy in the UK, which is expected to bepublished later 2010.

The Crown Estate announced the names of the successfulbidders for the world’s first commercial wave and tidalleasing round in March, for ten sites in Scotland’sPentland Firth and Orkney waters. 1.2 GW is proposed bythe developers for 2020.

The successful recipients of the £22 million MarineRenewable Proving Fund (MRPF) were announced inFebruary: Atlantis Resources, Aquamarine Power,Hammerfest Strom UK, Marine Current Turbines, PelamisWave Power and Voith Hydro.

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) continues toexpand, with three additional grid connected berths (2tidal, 1 wave) and a four berth (2 tidal, 2 wave) non-gridconnected nursery sites.

Aquamarine’s device, Oyster 1, installed in EMEC in 2009,is currently undergoing sea trials and planning the designof the next-generation Oyster 2. The Pelamis P2, 750kWmachine completed its first set of trials in the outerreaches of the Firth of Forth. Atlantis successful deployedtheir AK1000 (1MW) turbine at EMEC during August 2010.Rolls Royce/Tidal Generation Ltd is currently undergoingsea trials at EMEC of its 500kW turbine. The MarineCurrent Turbines Tidal stream project “SEAGEN”,continues to successfully operate.

The pioneering Wave Hub marine energy project has beeninstalled on the seabed, 16 kilometers offshore. WaveHub is creating the world’s largest test site for waveenergy technology by building a grid-connected socket onthe seabed off the coast of Cornwall in South WestEngland, to which wave power devices can be connectedand their performance evaluated. There are four berthsavailable each covering two square kilometers. Wave Hubwill have an initial maximum capacity of 20MW but hasbeen designed with the potential to scale up to 50MW inthe future.

SeaGen tidal energysystem, of Marine

Current Turbines Ltd

Strangford Lough(UK-Northern Ireland)

Commercial Deployment of Ocean Energy 29th September 2010, Engineers Ireland To position industry for the challenges and opportunities associated with large-scale utilisation of Ocean Energy, a workshop on the “Commercial Deployment of Marine Energy Projects” was organisedby the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland with the support of Innovation Norway.

Presentations are available at: www.seai.ie/Renewables/Ocean_Energy/OE_O_and_M_Workshop/

Oyster1, Aquamarine’sdevice operating in

EMEC (UK)

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Canada Tracey Kutney, CanmetENERGY, NRCan

The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) isan ongoing project in Canada, Nova Scotia, for tidalenergy research, supported by both public and privatefunding (www.fundyforce.ca). Total funding to date isapproximately $38 million. It was set up as a fullypermitted and grid‐connected multi‐user demonstrationfacility.

Key actions at FORCE, in 2010, include the developmentof an environmental monitoring program. The OpenHydro (Irish technology) in partnership with Nova ScotiaPower was the first technology to be tested at FORCE.Other technologies planned for installation include theMarine Current Turbine in partnership with Minas BasinPulp and Power and the Alstom/Clean Current PowerSystems.

Several developers may receive funding for developingprojects in Canada, including: SyncWave Systems Inc.,Renewable Energy Research (RER) subsidiary of RSWInc., Carnegie Wave Energy Ltd, New Energy CorporationInc. and Verdant Power.

The development of a Canadian Marine RenewableEnergy Technology Roadmap has been initiated, and isexpected to be publically available in 2012.

United States of AmericaAlejandro Moreno, USA DOE

In 2010 an impressive number of developments for ocean energy technology took place in USA, including significant changes to the national ocean policy.

The federal agency responsible for offshore energy regulation on the Outer Continental Shelf of the United States, Minerals Management Service (MMS), was restructured and renamed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE).

In 2010, the Department of Energy made 20 Advanced Water Power Technology Development awards, including funding for advanced design and manufacturing technologies for composite materials, conceptual design and modelling for ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), advanced power converters and power take off mechanisms.

Through a new funding opportunity, known as a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), nearly $5 million were allocated, selected for research projects to address environmental information needs for ocean energy.

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $250,000 to the Center for Ocean Energy Technology at Florida Atlantic University to launch the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center.

DOE provided support for 27 industry demonstration projects, including: the Ocean Renewable Power Company project (Portland, Maine) for a commercial-scale array of five grid-connected TidGen™ devices in Maine and the project of the Public Utility District No.1 of Snohomish County (Everett, Washington) consisting of two Open-Centre Turbines, by OpenHydro Group Ltd., in Admiralty Inlet of Puget Sound.

Verdant Power signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the China Energy Conservation Environment Protection Group to develop a tidal project in China.

Oregon State University (OSU) and University of Washington (UW) in partnership are developing the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) to support wave and tidal energy development for the United States.

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. signed an agreement with eleven federal and state agencies and three non-governmental stakeholders for its utility-scale wave power project in Reedsport, Oregon.

Photo: Courtesy of Hydro Green Energy, LLC Installed in Hastings, Minnesota (USA)

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