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Buka Passage Tidal Energy Project
The Buka Passage contains enormous tidal energy potential. Preliminary estimates are that at any one time up to 35 million tones of water is flowing rapidly through the passage between Buka and Bougainville Islands, both part of PNG. A two-year Cooperation Agreement was signed in November 2017 to implement a tidal demonstration project and deliver a business plan for completion of a city-scale electricity grid incorporating tidal-generated electricity
- Planned: Project has identified a deployment location and is preparing for deployment
- Operational: Project is deployed in the water and is active
- Completed: Project was previously deployed in the water
- Decommissioned: Installation has been fully removed in accordance with regulations
- Canceled: Project was canceled before being deployed in the water
- Tidal
- Open Ocean: Main body of ocean, not enclosed or partially enclosed by land
- Coastal: Open water near the coast, spanning between land and shelf boundary
- Enclosed Bay: water that is partially surrounded by land, with a mouth open to larger water
- Constricted Channel: A channel where water flows quickly due to narrowing by the land
- River: Water flowing from land towards a larger body of water
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Last modified: 2024-04-12