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TechnoCentre olien & WESNet: partners in th
Canadian R&D efforts on cold climate
Frdric Ct, General Manager
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Wind Energy TechnoCentre (TCE) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2000 whosemandate is to contribute to the development of acompetitive industrial wind energy cluster in
Qubec
Applied research
Technical support to businesses
Economic developement
Communications & events
www.eolien.qc.ca
TechnoCentre olien (www.eolien.qc.ca)
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UNIVERSITIES COLLEGES GOUVERNMENT COMMUNITIES BUSINESS
60 members
OEM (WECs)
Wind farms
developers and
operators
Components
Manufacturers
Engineeringand
environmental
services
Others
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www.eolien.qc.ca
TCEs SNEEC R&D Windfarm
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Two 2.05 MW Repower
MM92 wind turbines
Located in Riviere-au-
Renard, Qubec,
Canada
Icing & complex terrain
Commissionned in
March 2010
Research, developmentand technology transfer
projects involving
northern climates and
complex terrain.
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www.eolien.qc.ca
Upcoming wind-diesel project
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1,6 million CAD
2012
Coupling wind-diesel
High penetration of windenergy
Storage
Batteries
Compressed air
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www.eolien.qc.ca
WESNet (www.wesnet.ca)
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TCE
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WESNet
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17 projects in 4 Themes:
Theme 1: Wind Resource Assessment Wind resource assessment and forecasting in Canadian climate and geography
Theme 2: Wind Energy Extraction Wind energy extraction in cold climate, wind turbine and wind farm
performance assessment
Theme 3: Wind Power Engineering Integration, control and protection of wind power in electrical grids, at the
utility level and for distributed generation
Theme 4: Techno-Economic Optimization of EnergySystems Hybrid energy systems, simulation and optimization technologies to maximize
the economic benefits for Canada
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Focus on 7 projects with cold weather issues:
Design of ice-free anemometers (Jean Ruel, Universit Laval)
Wind turbine composite materials for the Canadian
context (Simon Joncas, ETS & Curran Crawford, University of Victoria)Ice accretion modelling (Adrian Ilinca, UQAR & Guy Fortin, UQAC)
Wind tunnel investigations of icing impact on wind
turbine blade profiles (Jean Perron & Guy Fortin, UQAC)
Forecasting icing events (Robert Benoit, ETS)
Icing event monitoring (Christian Masson, ETS)
Atlas of icing events at high resolution (Christian Masson,ETS)
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www.eolien.qc.ca
37, rue Chrtien
Gasp (Qubec) G4X 1E1
Thank you!Frdric Ct
Tel: +1 418 368 6162 ext. 233
Email: [email protected]
http://www.eolien.qc.ca/http://www.eolien.qc.ca/
