Speakers: Luiz Faria, OERA and Dan Hasselman, Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE)

The Pathway Program is a technology development and testing program focused on identifying approved environmental monitoring solutions for ocean energy projects.  It is a coordinated and focused partnership between industry, academia and regulators.  Monitoring and reporting fish and marine mammal interactions with ocean-based devices is essential and approved monitoring solutions are critical to advancing the tidal energy industry. 

Canadian-made solutions

Canada's existing strengths in ocean instrumentation, data analytics and science support innovation.  As a result of this program, Canadian suppliers will have new technology to sell globally to the tidal energy, offshore wind, and other sectors of the ocean economy.

Experience-driven success

Prior investments in research and marine monitoring in the Bay of Fundy means this program benefits from existing expertise and hands-on experience.  Project developers and regulators are actively engaged in the program, which will help to:

• reduce time to regulatory approval for end-users
• lower financial risk to achieve regulatory approval for end-users
• lessen the cost of technology development for Canadian SME’s
• reduce operating expenditures via data automation
• test for reliability
• attain regulatory confidence

The OERA webinar series is hosted in Zoom.