EnGen Institute 1992-2018
Survey Ocean Energy Resources
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TOTAL SUSTAINABILITY
GENERATIVE ENGINEERING OF ENGINEERED ENVIRONMENTS FOR LIFE SUPPORT
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.
