Country Reports
AUSTRALIA
Mark Hemer and Tracey Pitman (CSIRO)
Stephanie Thornton (Australian Ocean Energy Group)
PROJECTS IN THE WATER
There are aspirations to establish test sites in Australia, but there are none yet.
MAKO Tidal Turbines has installed a MAKO turbine system at Gladstone Port, a large port in eastern Australia.
PLANNED DEPLOYMENTS
Projects under development planned to be soon deployed in the sea include:
- BOMBORA is currently working on the financial arrangements for their first commercial array project in Europe after the completion and validation of their mWaveTM prototype of 1.5 MW in Wales;
- MAKO Tidal Turbines installed a MAKO turbine system at a large port in Australia while simultaneously progressing to a demonstration site in South East Asia.
- Nandy’s R&D Pty Ltd has moved through the proof of concept stage with plans to develop a full-sized pilot project.
- Wave Swell Energy is working on funding its 200 kW wave energy project to be located on King Island.
- Carnegie is moving now with the design of CETO 6 wave energy device of 1.5 MW.
