Speakers: John Woods (Minas Energy) and Tony Wright (FORCE)

Tony Wright’s presentation will provide a FORCE point-of-view on tidal power development and the challenge of  “working in water that moves over 20 kilometres an hour.”  John Woods will talk about two of the FORCE berths (A & C) from a developer’s perspective. These include a total of 21 x 420 MW units, connected in two arrays. He will highlight some points on interconnectivity.

Biography:

John Woods, P. Eng., is vice president of energy development at Minas Energy. He holds an engineering degree from Dalhousie and has more than four decades of experience as an entrepreneurial engineer, as alderman of the City of Dartmouth, and has a successful track record developing renewable energy projects. John’s professional competence and skill of a community leader have advanced innovative engineering designs and creative solutions to business and political issues related to energy development. For more than two decades John has also mentored many Dalhousie engineering students as a lecturer on “Engineers in Society.”

Tony Wright is general manager at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy. FORCE is a public/private partnership studying the performance and interaction of tidal energy turbines in the Bay of Fundy. Tony has an MBA degree from St. Mary’s and an engineering degree from the Royal Military College of Canada. He spent more than two decades as a career officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, holding a variety of leadership and technical roles onboard Canadian warships and ashore, before joining FORCE in 2012.