Offshore wind planning and environmental impact

Policy
Practice
Energy
Environment
Soporific

wind
Offshore
(finding the
spot)
sweet

Which is leading?
Policy
Practice

Policy
Planning
Environment
Energy

Renewable Energy Directive
generic
Communication on
offshore wind
specific
Communication on
infrastructure priorities
generic

Renewable Energy Directive
20%
NREAPS
40 GW

Communication on
offshore wind
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0768:FIN:EN:PDF

Communication on
infrastructure priorities
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SPLIT_COM:2010:0677(01):FIN:EN:PDF

http://www.roadmap2050.eu/downloads

Policy
Planning
Environment
Energy

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Why maritime planning?
Land use
Tourism
Oil & Gas
Mariculture
Coastal defence
Ports & navigation
Military activities
Culture
Conservation
Dredging & disposal
Defra
Submarine cables
Fishing
Renewable energy
Marine recreation
Mineral extraction

Text alert

Definition
Marine Spatial Planning
A framework for consistent and integrated decision-making; a tool to support IMP
It analyses and allocates spatial and temporal distribution of human activities

Policy
Planning
Environment
Energy

“The Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires the application of the ecosystem approach to the management of human activities”

Marine
Strategy
Framework
Directive
“Good Environmental
Status”
“Descriptors”

Biodiversity

Resource
exploitation

pollution

GES criteria
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:232:0014:0024:EN:PDF

MSFD
WFD

Which is leading?
Policy
Practice

“Pure power, EWEA, 2009”; NREAPs

WindSpeed.eu

Spatial planning of offshore wind farms: A windfall to marine environmental protection? Punt et al, 2009
https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/199644/original/Sam_Swenson_2010.pdf

Cumulative impact
?

Practice
Energy
Policy
Environment

Policy developing; lags practice
Few problems with offshore wind on case-by-case basis
Cumulative impact uncertain

David Owain Clubb
Renewable energy project manager
david.clubb@eea.europa.eu
“Offshore wind – policy, practice, environment, energy”
12th October 2011

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