TECHNICAL GUIDANCE PUBLISHED FOR OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION

PCCI engineer Pat Grandelli is a co-author of the newly-released Technical Specification “Design and analysis of an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) plant – General guidance” published by the International Electrotechnical Commission. He attended the 7^th International OTEC Symposium in Busan to discuss the new publication and to observe Korea’s new barge-mounted OTEC system. On September 30^th, 2019, Korea’s system set an unofficial new record by generating 370 kilowatts of electricity.  The new design guidance is available at:  https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/28618.