Our Company
Tidewind Inc. is a Canadian renewable energy technology company based in Langley, BC. Company was founded by Mr. Dmitriy Minenko, the company’s CEO, after he invented and filed US and PCT patent applications for an innovative Unidirectional Rotation Rotor (UDRR). This Unidirectional Rotation Rotor is used as the main rotating part of power turbines for generating electricity by harvesting energy from two very different natural renewable sources – marine tidal streams and wind.
UDRR rotor has a unique and important feature: it always rotates in one direction regardless of the angle of flow of water or air coming into the rotor blades.
Initially, Dmitriy came up with an idea on how to design this innovative rotor for harvesting the energy of marine tidal streams, which change 180 degrees with each flood or ebb current four times every day. His experience with 3D printing technologies helped him to create several working prototypes for both marine tidal stream and wind power generation systems which he presented to and discussed with several academic scientists and renewable energy specialists. The positive feedback received from those people led him to the decision to launch Tidewind Inc. with goal to offer renewable energy industry a new approach to generating electricity using energy from two very different natural sources – tide and wind – by using same turbine design.
One type of system was developed specifically for tidal marine stream power generation. Those tidal turbines can be placed on the sea floor using underwater supporting structures or installed on floating platforms anchored to the shore or sea bottom and generate electricity in low to medium speed marine tidal streams, both laminar and turbulent. There is an option to install additional wind and solar panels on the same floating platform to create a hybrid power-generating system that could harvest energy from three renewable sources simultaneously. Read more…
The second type of system was developed for low-cost wind power generation in a wide range of air flow speeds. In this case UDRR-based wind turbines can be installed on the ground supporting structures, masts or on tall buildings in urban areas. Read more…
Another type of system can be used for harvesting energy from free-flowing water river streams, creek streams, inshore tidal flows, hydropower station spill water, dams and channels. Our hydrokinetic turbines are capable of operating in a variety of flow rates, making them deployable in the greatest range of locations around the world. Read more…
