Technology:
MODEC will start the substantiative experiment of a floating generator that generates
electricity with the help of wind and tidal current together this fall. The floating
generator is moored at the seabed with the chain. The floating structure is
about 30 m in diameter. It has a windmill with the vertical rotation axis on
the sea surface and a rotating waterwheel that rotates receiving tidal current
under the sea surface. The windmill is 47 m high, while the waterwheel is 16 m
downward from the sea surface. The generator has a generation capacity of 500
kW. The power generation technology that utilizes wind and tidal current was
developed for the first time in the world.
The
company is scheduled to finish installation toward the end of this August and
start power generation this fall. In 2014, it plans to sell electricity to the
local electric power company. It wishes to lease the generator to local fishers.
Although an agreement with fishers on the installation, it strenuously looks
for ways of coexistence with them. The project is funded by New Energy and
Industrial Technology Organization (NEDO). Please click here for further details of this power generation system.
A floating power generation system
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