Identification

Title
Tidal Stream Energy Resource Area
Abstract

Resource Areas (RAs) are broad areas that describe, for some sectors, the distribution of a particular resource that has the potential to be used or is used. The Tidal Stream Energy RAs were derived from The Crown Estate’s (TCE’s) Key Resource Areas (KRAs) (The Crown Estate, 2013) and areas defined in the Marine Renewable Energy Strategic Framework (RPS, 2011). TCE areas were based on a minimum mean peak spring current of 1.5 m/s and a minimum depth of 5 m (The Crown Estate, 2013). The MRESF dataset was created by RPS (2011) to show potential tidal stream and wave energy resource areas in Welsh waters. The MRESF and TCE KRAs were merged to form the tidal stream energy RA.

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Derivation of RAs

Resource Areas (RAs) are broad areas that describe for some sectors the distribution of a particular resource that has the potential to be used or is used.

RA derivation does not include environmental factors, the assessment of which must be undertaken before issuing a licence; at which point more detail is known on any proposal.

Please refer to the full RA derivation text for this sector and others.

Copyright:

Not applicable

Creation date:
Type
Spatial data
Keywords
features, tidalstream_ra
Category:
Oceans

Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters). Examples: tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs

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Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:4326
Extension x0
-5.62476442099995
Extension x1
-2.67661913299997
Extension y0
51.2887728090001
Extension y1
53.583584036

Features

Contact

Email
data@gov.wales
Organisation
Welsh Government

References

Link online
/layers/appdata-wg-marine:tidalstream_ra
Metadata page
/layers/appdata-wg-marine:tidalstream_ra/metadata_detail

OGC Geopackage
Tidal Stream Energy Resource Area.gpkg
DXF
Tidal Stream Energy Resource Area.dxf
GML 2.0
Tidal Stream Energy Resource Area.gml
Excel
Tidal Stream Energy Resource Area.excel
GML 3.1.1
Tidal Stream Energy Resource Area.gml
Zipped Shapefile
Tidal Stream Energy Resource Area.zip
CSV
Tidal Stream Energy Resource Area.csv
GeoJSON
Tidal Stream Energy Resource Area.json

OWS endpoints

WMS
WFS