Aquantis, Inc.
Born in the wind and raised in the water, Aquantis was formed in 2011 to develop and commercialize marine current turbines. Aquantis is built on the founders’ three-decade legacy of successful wind power technology development, manufacturing and building power projects around the world. This deep knowledge is now applied to advancing ocean current power generation, joining with wind and solar toward displacing carbon fuels and helping to mitigate the burdens of climate change and degradation of the biosphere. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, the Aquantis team comprises technology and business professionals working in partnership with the National Laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy and with the U.S. Navy. Since 2012, Aquantis and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) have collaborated on ocean turbine design, drawing on MHI’s leadership in building submarines, unmanned underwater vehicles, and offshore oil and gas facilities.
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- Business Type:
- Technology
- Industry Type:
- Renewable Energy
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
About us
Aquantis adheres to corporate governance principles and best practices which promote sustainability related technology development and commercialization and provides accountability and control systems consistent with the highest standards.
Background
Prior to Aquantis, management created technologies for four generations of advanced wind turbines and the products and manufacturing capacity which led to the entry of both General Electric and United Technologies into the wind energy industry, in 2002 and 2010, respectively. The team’s record of success was to a great extent attributable to its relentless focus on driving down the cost of energy (COE) through technological advances and operating efficiencies. No single factor is more important to the commercial viability of a renewable technology than its COE.
Management’s leadership with Zond Systems (Zond, 1980-2000) and Clipper Windpower (Clipper, 2001–2010) demonstrated that with unrelenting focus on innovation, renewable energy technologies can achieve mainstream competitiveness forming the basis for multi-billion dollar global industries.
Aquantis is now positioned to launch ocean power generation, ushering in a major new segment of predictable renewable energy to complement the intermittency of wind and solar and help meet the surge in demand for renewables.
Deployment
Marine Renewable Energy
Large ocean circulation patterns, also known as gyre currents, along with tidal (periodic) currents, are the marine energy resources which Aquantis turbines can operate in to generate reliable, 24/7 electric power. In many regions globally, wind power and solar energy are competitive with fossil fuels, however these energy resources are intermittent and require back-up power generators to meet expected supply reliability.
The markets for Aquantis turbine arrays are in geographic regions with steady near-shore ocean currents, where connection is to electric power grid serving large coastal populations. Such zones may be found on all seven continents.
As an example, the Gulf Stream running up the Coast from Florida to North Carolina, offers America a vast strategic renewable energy resource, in close proximity to large population clusters, where coal fired power plants and coal mines are shutting down, and the displaced work force can move ahead to quality jobs in marine energy.
Aquantis is in advanced engineering to build, test, and certify its breakthrough marine current turbine, while in parallel, adding to the project site portfolio.