From Metro Vancouver pipes to the Salish Sea
The Axial Labs fleet ties together two deployment environments under one protocol: in-pipe turbines installed across municipal water infrastructure in Metro Vancouver and the Sea-to-Sky corridor, and ocean units scattered across the Salish Sea. 88 nodes in year 7, every one of them monitored by CommandCC.
| Fleet | Units | Environment | Annual revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-pipe tubular propeller (AXL-T) | 45 | Metro Vancouver + Sea-to-Sky municipal pipes | $607,000 |
| Scout VAWT nodes | 20 | Salish Sea (resource map + micro-power) | data value |
| Harvester (ducted propeller) | 15 | 5 proven high-current tidal sites | $100,000 |
| Kite (velocity multiplier) | 8 | 2 low-flow sites | $60,000 |
| Combined | 88 | $767,000 per year |
About $64,000 per month at the year 7 target. All revenue flows through a single BC Hydro interconnection per shore station.
45 AXL-T series tubular propeller turbines installed in existing municipal water infrastructure across Metro Vancouver and the Sea-to-Sky corridor. Each unit slots into a pressure-reducing station or a gravity-fed supply main and harvests energy that would otherwise be dissipated as heat in a pressure-reduction valve.
The in-pipe fleet is the reason the ocean fleet exists. It taught us the supply chain (CNC aluminum, marine composites, sealed PMA generators), proved the monitoring protocol at 45-unit scale, and paid for the R&D that the ocean tiers are now using.
Twenty self-starting flex-foil VAWT nodes across these sites provide six months of real measured tidal velocity data at 30-second resolution across every tidal state and season.
The top five sites ranked by annual energy potential (integral of v3 over time), selected from scout data. Three ducted propellers per site, one subsea cable, one shore station, one grid interconnection.
The top two low-flow sites where ducted propellers are not economic but kite velocity multiplication makes extraction viable. Four kites per site, one autopilot-managed flight envelope.
Scouts deploy under Canadian monitoring-equipment classification at units under 5 kW. No environmental assessment required at this scale. Six months of real scout data then becomes the environmental baseline for the harvester and kite site applications.
The scout data is the permitting instrument. You cannot argue with six months of real 30-second-interval velocity measurements.