Web-based geospatial decision support system to facilitate marine renewable energy site selection in British Columbia, Canada

The authors present the British Columbia Marine Energy Resource Atlas (hereafter referred to as \u201cthe Atlas\u201d), a web-based geospatial decision support system (DSS) to facilitate preliminary marine renewable energy (MRE) site selection and feasibility investigations within the rivers and coastal waters of Canada\u2019s westernmost province. The Atlas was developed such that users are able to interact with the underlying datasets that drive the hotspot delineation. As such, the Atlas is an effective tool to quickly investigate multiple case-scenarios with different resource, socio-economic, and environmental criteria. Furthermore, the Atlas is the first MRE DSS to offer support for tidal, wave, and river hydrokinetic resources under a common system and interface.Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye