Turbine moves from the Big Apple to the Core of Canada

A Verdant Free Flow turbine is installed in the East River at the start of the two-year demonstration period

Kris Unger

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By Darius Snieckus

 Sunday, October 02 2011

Updated: Sunday, November 25 2012

US developer Verdant ­Power is gearing up to test two hydrokinetic turbines in the swift-flowing waters of the St Lawrence River next year as it ramps up plans for a scheme that could eventually flow electricity to 15,000 Canadian homes.

Verdant’s Free Flow turbine, a three-bladed, downstream, ­horizontal-axis device that has evolved through four generations of design since 1989, has been battle-hardened in the currents of New York City’s East River as part of the Roosevelt ­Island Tidal ­Energy (Rite) project.

For the Cornwall Ontario ­River Energy (Core) scheme in the St Lawrence River, which forms part of the boundary between Canada and the US, the technology is being adapted to suit a continuous-flow setting, rather than tidal cycles.

“The Rite and the Core projects are similar, but different, in…

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