Australian tidal energy resource data from the AUSTEn project, which ran from 2018 to 2020. The project was led by the Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania, in partnership with CSIRO and the University of Queensland, with industry support. It aimed to assess the technical and economic feasibility of tidal energy in Australia.
Use Cases
- Modeling tidal energy resource potential based on project-collected oceanographic data.
- Assessing the economic feasibility of tidal energy installations in specific Australian regions.
- Validating hydrodynamic models for tidal current prediction using field measurement data.
Strengths
- Project was funded by the Australian Renewable Energy National Agency (agreement number G00902).
- Project involved a three-year collaborative effort (2018-2020) with academic and industry partners.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network via data_gov_au.
- Collection Method
- Likely contains field measurements and model outputs from the AUSTEn project.
- Time Range
- Project period: 2018 - 2020.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-13 11:40:14.985439; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia, specifically Clarence Strait.