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An introduction to offshore wind for the undergraduate course on renewable energy law at Aarhus University, Denmark
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Offshore wind
(finding the spot)sweet
Policy Practice
Which is leading?
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Renewable Energy Directive
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offshore wind
infrastructure priorities
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20%NREAPS
40 GW
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Land use
Tourism
Oil & Gas
Coastal defence
Ports & navigation
Military activities
Culture
Conservation
Dredging & disposal
Submarine cables
Fishing
Renewable energy
Marine recreation
Mineral extraction
Mariculture
Why maritime planning?
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DefinitionMarine 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
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“The Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires the application of the ecosystem approach to the management of human activities”
MarineStrategyFrameworkDirective
“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
MSFDWFD
Policy Practice
Which is leading?
“Pure power, EWEA, 2009”; NREAPs
WindSpeed.eu
Spatial planning of offshore wind farms: A windfall to marine environmental protection? Punt et al, 2009https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/199644/original/Sam_Swenson_2010.pdf
Cumulative impact
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Practice
Policy Energy
Environment
1. Policy developing; lags practice2. Few problems with offshore wind on
case-by-case basis3. Cumulative impact uncertain
David Owain ClubbRenewable energy project manager
“Offshore wind – policy, practice, environment, energy”12th October 2011
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