Guidelines for simulating hydrokinetic turbine arrays

The extraction of energy from flowing water in rivers and tidal regions is gaining acceptance around the world as a means of generating electricity without the use of conventional hydropower dams. The purpose of this guideline is to provide a uniform methodology that will ensure consistency and accuracy in the estimation, measurement, characterisation, and analysis of the velocity/hydrokinetic resource at sites that could be suitable for the installation of an individual or array of turbines, together with defining a standardised methodology with which this resource can be described and reported.