It all starts with our building block, the POD.
The POD [Power-generating Ocean Device] is a modular hydrokinetic generator unit with a rear rotor that constantly steers the system into the current - like the tail of a salmon.
The ORCA [Ocean Renewable Current Array] is our floating, anchored system made with many PODs suspended beneath a floating platform.
Adaptable systems.
Our modular hydrokinetic generator units are adaptable to many applications.
Scaled power comes through arrays.
Each POD is relatively small -> 2kW.
Each ORCA includes stacked chains of PODs -> 12kW+
Installations may have hundreds of ORCA systems -> 1MW+
Tides move up-and-down, but this is not the movement we are capturing.
As the tide rises, water rushes through coastal inlets to fill areas like bays or fjords. As the tide falls, this water rushes back out towards the sea. This daily predictable rushing water is a tidal current.
In the US, some of the strongest tidal currents are in Southeast Alaska, where twenty foot tides fill hundred-mile long fjords.