EnGen Institute 1992-2018
Survey Ocean Energy Resources
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LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS
TOTAL SUSTAINABILITY
GENERATIVE ENGINEERING OF ENGINEERED ENVIRONMENTS FOR LIFE SUPPORT
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COEE
COEE aims to address the need for accurate fine resolution surveys, (including bathymetry, currents and biota) of our National Ocean Energy Resources and to produce simulation models to identify the best environmentally sound sites.
CENTRE FOR OCEAN ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT Climate change is driving the need to rapidly establish new sources of bulk, baseload renewable energy. Solar and wind power have not provided either baseload capability or bulk power due to being intermittent (sudden dropout) which limits their share of generation on the national grid.   Ocean energy (wave and tidal power) is not intermittent and with a small amount of energy storage can provide base-load power. However their development is blocked by lack of access to in-sea test sites (due to the historic administration of the marine environment by function and public ownership rather than as with land administration by location and private ownership). There is also little ocean energy resource data including data on the effects of ocean energy technology.   COEE aims to address these two barriers to the rapid economic, environmentally and socially sound development of ocean energy resources, technology and industry. It is important to avoid any environmentally harmful installations of emerging technologies in order to ensure the ocean energy industry has a social licence to operate. Bad installations of new energy technology (e.g. coal seam gas) block & delay our capacity to address climate change.