Reference number : GC-2017-Q1-00336, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Bibeau, Eric (University of Manitoba)|Bibeau, Eric (Université du Manitoba), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Manitoba, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Collaborative Research and Development Grants - Project, program name french : Subventions de recherche et développement coopérative - projet, program purpose english : With Canada having identified 100 GW of river hydrokinetic potential (rivaling Canada's current total nameplate electrical generating capacity), the proposed collaborative marine research with New Energy will contribute to the realization of economic opportunities inherent to our renewable energy resources. Marine energy technology provides base load generation, providing opportunities to displace diesel generation. The University of Manitoba established the Canadian Hydrokinetic Turbine testing Centre (CHTTC) and collaborates with Canadian marine companies, like New Energy, that develop hydrokinetic turbines at the distributed scale. The CHTTC assists Canadian companies to increase their market share in the expanding global supply chain by supporting commercialization of marine water-to-wire turbine technology. New Energy designs and develops river and tidal marine turbines for distributed generation power markets worldwide. The proposed Collaborative Research and Development project will investigate ways to improve the application of distributed generation in communities using hydrokinetic technologies, focusing mainly on river applications.  The objective is to improve methods and procedures to reduce the overall levelized cost of energy for deploying and operating hydrokinetic turbines worldwide. Research will be on investigating new approaches to simplify how to install and operate this technology, decrease the weight of components that must be shipped to remote locations, and reduce system complexities. Focus will be on decreasing operator requirements by eliminating difficult on-water procedures, simplifying operator training and workplace safety procedures, and considerably reducing on-water safety risks. _x000D_
 _x000D_, program purpose french : With Canada having identified 100 GW of river hydrokinetic potential (rivaling Canada's current total nameplate electrical generating capacity), the proposed collaborative marine research with New Energy will contribute to the realization of economic opportunities inherent to our renewable energy resources. Marine energy technology provides base load generation, providing opportunities to displace diesel generation. The University of Manitoba established the Canadian Hydrokinetic Turbine testing Centre (CHTTC) and collaborates with Canadian marine companies, like New Energy, that develop hydrokinetic turbines at the distributed scale. The CHTTC assists Canadian companies to increase their market share in the expanding global supply chain by supporting commercialization of marine water-to-wire turbine technology. New Energy designs and develops river and tidal marine turbines for distributed generation power markets worldwide. The proposed Collaborative Research and Development project will investigate ways to improve the application of distributed generation in communities using hydrokinetic technologies, focusing mainly on river applications.  The objective is to improve methods and procedures to reduce the overall levelized cost of energy for deploying and operating hydrokinetic turbines worldwide. Research will be on investigating new approaches to simplify how to install and operate this technology, decrease the weight of components that must be shipped to remote locations, and reduce system complexities. Focus will be on decreasing operator requirements by eliminating difficult on-water procedures, simplifying operator training and workplace safety procedures, and considerably reducing on-water safety risks. _x000D_
 _x000D_, agreement title english : Reducing the levelized cost of electricity for river hydrokinetic turbines, agreement title french : Reducing the levelized cost of electricity for river hydrokinetic turbines, agreement number : CRDPJ, agreement value : 378609.0, agreement start date : 2017-06-14, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2021-2022), additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier. (2017-2018 à 2021-2022), owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada