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For siting and land access teams. Renewable energy zones, transmission proximity, terrain, land use, hazards and title fragmentation in one screen, plus the community profile for consultation.
The siting criteria are known: land flat enough, near enough to a line, on compatible land use, outside the worst hazard areas, in few enough titles to negotiate. Applying them takes months of analyst time because those six criteria are held by six agencies, in six formats, on six geographies.
Each of those layers is in the lake, because they are the same layers that answer climate and land questions. Siting is a different set of filters over the same join.
Inside the declared renewable energy zones in NSW, find parcels over 150 hectares with mean slope under five degrees, within 10 km of transmission, on grazing or cropping land, outside bushfire prone land, and count the titles in each.
| Candidate | Area | Mean slope | Line distance | Titles | Land use |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-007 | 380 ha | 1.9° | 2.6 km | 1 | Grazing |
| C-023 | 212 ha | 3.1° | 7.8 km | 3 | Cropping |
| C-039 | 164 ha | 4.6° | 9.4 km | 6 | Grazing |
reztransmissioncadastreterrainland_usehazardsThe candidates above are illustrative, not real parcels. Title count is a column general mapping tools omit, and it changes a land access strategy. Four hundred hectares in one title and four hundred across six titles are different projects. The cadastre shows the fragmentation before any contact is made. It does not show the owners, because ownership is not a public dataset. Parcel screening runs on the NSW cadastre today.
A screen of this kind is published in full: rural lots inside the Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone filtered on area, slope and distance to a 330 kV line, with bushfire-prone land flagged rather than excluded. Half of its calls failed, the failures are on the page, and the page names a mistake in the answer the agent settled on. Screening a renewable energy zone for solar-farm land.
A second screen covers the whole state for data-centre land: rural or industrial lots of twenty hectares or more near 330 kV transmission, a substation and a sealed arterial, with few residents nearby, a town within reach, and the thirty-year solar resource read at each lot. It returns 3,999 lots and reads every test from one parcel table. Screening NSW for data-centre land with a solar co-location check.
After a corridor or a site is chosen, the questions change. Who lives within five kilometres, and their age and income profile. How many dwellings sit inside the visual catchment. What generation, storage and charging infrastructure is nearby. Which council areas the corridor crosses, and their population trend.
Those all run off the ABS spine, so a community profile for a consultation submission is a query. Councils hosting a zone and community energy groups ask the same questions and get the same answers from the same layers.
Live now: renewable energy zones, transmission and substation infrastructure, existing energy facilities, EV charging points, land use (NSW today, national loading), terrain from the national elevation model, hazard layers and cadastre. Not live: environmental referral history and connection queue data. Those are the next additions.
Two limits. Slope from a national elevation model is a screen, not a geotechnical survey, and it will be wrong on individual parcels. Land use classification carries its own vintage and resolution, and a paddock that changed use since the mapping run is classified as it was. Both are adequate for eliminating candidates. Neither is adequate for an investment decision on a single site. Every output names the layer and vintage behind it.
No. Distance to a line is not capacity on it. This cuts a search area down to candidates that pass slope, land use, hazard, area and title tests, so connection and yield studies are spent on a short list.
Geoscience Australia and AEMO published sources for network and facility data, and the declaring state schemes for renewable energy zone boundaries. Some widely used generation datasets are licensed for non-commercial use only. Those are not in the lake, because the licence would apply to your outputs.
Yes. Population, dwellings, age and income profile, socioeconomic index and land use within a buffer or corridor come from the same ABS spine as everything else. That is usually the first thing a consultation or benefit-sharing plan needs.
A published agent run. Rural lots inside the Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone screened on area, slope and distance to high-voltage transmission, with the seven calls that failed and the map of the results.
A published agent run. Every NSW parcel screened for data-centre land on zoning, lot size, distance to 330 kV transmission and a substation, a sealed arterial, residents within two kilometres, a town of 5,000 to 50,000 within thirty, slope and flood planning, with the thirty-year solar resource read at each lot.
Multi-criteria siting for wind, solar and storage across Australia. Renewable energy zones, transmission proximity, terrain, land use, hazards and title fragmentation in one screen.
Asset-level physical climate risk screening across flood, bushfire, coastal recession and extreme heat, using Australian open hazard data and CMIP6 scenarios.
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