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"Offshore wind development in the UK comes with a quid pro quo: developers reap
the energy profits, but the research and data it’s built on belongs to the
people.
A group of researchers in Melbourne want the same thing to happen in Australia.
But for that to happen there is years of work ahead to design a system that
works for developers, standardised data formats that work for researchers, and
a price tag that governments can sell to constituents.
“The first part is we have to recognise that this requires coordination among
all the key stakeholders,” says Shiaohuey Chow, engineer and director of the
Australian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (ACOWE).
“I’m talking about government, regulators, offshore wind developers,
researchers, and community. The second part is we need a robust governance
framework. The third one is a standardised data collection protocol and method
for nationwide monitoring and evaluation. Because different developers,
different consultants, contractors will have different formats.
“Lastly, we require a national data-sharing infrastructure to enable open
access to data.”
Chow’s vision is for a database that incorporates all elements of data
generated in the pursuit of offshore wind, from which whales are migrating and
where, to cultural values and community data, noise, archaeology, and
geophysical, and stores it in a standardised format.
Adding this initial data to ongoing monitoring after operations start would
create a bank of open source information over time, opening new avenues of
research as well as informing how future development might happen.
It’s a big vision – one that took the UK a decade to get right before
officially launching the Marine Data Exchange in 2013 – which is why Australia
must start now, Chow believes.
She’s not alone."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
