It's time for Australia to embrace ocean renewable energy

摘要

Wind and solar may be currently leading the way in Australia's renewable energy race, but there's another contender lurking in the nation's oceans. Australia arguably possesses the world's largest wave energy resource, around 1800 terawatt hours. Most or this is concentrated in the southern half of the continent, between Geraldton and Brisbane. To put this in context, Australia used 248 terawatt hours of electricity in 2013-14.