Perth Wave Energy Project PWEP

The Perth Wave Power Project (PWEP) is an innovative offshore development in Garden Island, Western Australia (WA). Managed by Carnegie Wave Energy, the project was operational for 12 months, a pre-commercial array of three CETO 5 units to provide clean electricity and potable desalinated water to Australia’s largest naval base, HMAS Stirling, on Garden Island in Western Australia. Supported with $13.1 million of funding from ARENA, this now complete $40 million project was the first array of wave power generators to be connected to an electricity grid, worldwide. The Perth Project is now being partly decommissioned ahead of deploying a larger capacity CETO 6 pre-commercial array further offshore that will connect back to Garden Island.

arena.gov.au

Project Manager

Carnegie Clean Energy

Additional Information

Project Website

Project Status Is the project actively being planned or is deployed in the water (active)? Or was the project canceled or completed (inactive)?

Inactive

Project Life Cycle Project Progress through life cycle:<ul> <li>Planned: Project has identified a deployment location and is preparing for deployment</li> <li>Operational: Project is deployed in the water and is active</li> <li>Completed: Project was previously deployed in the water</li> <li>Decommissioned: Installation has been fully removed in accordance with regulations</li> <li>Canceled: Project was canceled before being deployed in the water</li></ul>

Decommissioned

Max Rated Power Capacity The maximum amount of electricity that can be produced by project, based on available resources and device nameplate capacity.

.72 MW

Operational Duration

November 2014 - December 2015

Project Duration

2012 - 2017

Energy Resource

Wave

Project Scale

Full-scale

Number of Devices

3

Grid Connectivity

Grid Connected

Waterbody

Offshore Rockingham, Garden Island

Site Characteristics Geographic characterization for the project location:<ul> <li>Open Ocean: Main body of ocean, not enclosed or partially enclosed by land</li> <li>Coastal: Open water near the coast, spanning between land and shelf boundary</li> <li>Enclosed Bay: water that is partially surrounded by land, with a mouth open to larger water</li> <li>Constricted Channel: A channel where water flows quickly due to narrowing by the land</li> <li>River: Water flowing from land towards a larger body of water</li></ul>

Open Ocean

Country

Australia

Environmental Details

Tethys Metadata

Last Modified

27 May 2025

This Project has the following MRE Devices

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Perth Wave Energy Project PWEP

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