Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC (ORPC) is a Delaware limited liability company founded in 2004 for the purpose of generating reliable, competitive, emission-free electricity from the virtually unlimited energy resources of the world’s tidal, river and deep water ocean currents.. ORPC has made great advances in the development of its proprietary ocean current generation (OCGen™) technology and is developing tidal energy projects in three of America’s most robust tidal energy resources: Western Passage and Cobscook Bay, Maine and Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Preliminary Permits from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) are in place and OPRC is in the process of obtaining Pilot Project Licenses for all three sites. ORPC is also developing run-of-river sites in Alaska and northern New England. FERC Preliminary Permits have been obtained for ORPC’s Tanana River site near Nenana, AK.
In April 2008, ORPC successfully completed extensive testing of the core component of its OCGen™ technology, the Turbine Generator Unit (TGU), in Western Passage, ME proving the technical feasibility of the TGU. As both a technology developer and a project developer, ORPC plans to commercialize its OCGen™ TGU technology by the end of 2009 while concurrently continuing to develop tidal and river power generation projects at a variety of sites.
