Oneka Glacier Project

The Oneka Glacier Project is a utility-scale wave powered sustainable desalination project. Oneka will scale up its wave-powered desalination technology to utility-scale, creating a desalination “Glacier” system to make the ocean a sustainable and affordable source of freshwater. Oneka Technologies will work with project partners AF Theriault who is supporting the manufacturing the hull and structure of the Glaciers’; H2O Innovation who is providing the process plant for the desalination portion of the Glacier technology; and government partner, the City of Barrington, NS who will provide a coastal site for buoy installation at Cape Sable Island. Energy harvested is used directly for reverse osmosis.

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Oneka Technologies

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Project Status Is the project actively being planned or is deployed in the water (active)? Or was the project canceled or completed (inactive)?

Active

Project Life Cycle Project Progress through life cycle:<ul> <li>Planned: Project has identified a deployment location and is preparing for deployment</li> <li>Operational: Project is deployed in the water and is active</li> <li>Completed: Project was previously deployed in the water</li> <li>Decommissioned: Installation has been fully removed in accordance with regulations</li> <li>Canceled: Project was canceled before being deployed in the water</li></ul>

Planned

Project Start Year

2023

Energy Resource

Wave

Project Scale

Full-scale

Grid Connectivity

Not Grid Connected

Waterbody

Strait of Barrington

Site Characteristics Geographic characterization for the project location:<ul> <li>Open Ocean: Main body of ocean, not enclosed or partially enclosed by land</li> <li>Coastal: Open water near the coast, spanning between land and shelf boundary</li> <li>Enclosed Bay: water that is partially surrounded by land, with a mouth open to larger water</li> <li>Constricted Channel: A channel where water flows quickly due to narrowing by the land</li> <li>River: Water flowing from land towards a larger body of water</li></ul>

Coastal

Country

Canada

Last Modified

14 May 2025

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“Oneka Glacier Project.” Marine Energy Projects Database: Projects, PRIMRE, United States Department of Energy, https:https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Projects/Oneka_Glacier_Project. Accessed <day> <monthRoman> <year>.

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Oneka Glacier Project

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