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Balancing Spatial and Environmental Impacts of large scale Renewable Offshore Energy Generation in the North Sea
The growing EU energy ambitions in the North Sea region are urging for an accelerated deployment of large-scale renewable energy (RE) infrastructure, with offshore wind farms (OWF) playing an essential role. However, implementing the current EU targets can be limited by the multiple competing spatial claims between existing sea uses, ecological values and OWFs, causing key uncertainties related to potential risks of interaction that may result in barriers to a swift roll-out of RE infrastructure. Up to this date there is no clear understanding of the space availability for different renewable energy installations. Such space availability depends on the alternative space management options applied, relying e.g. on more sectoral management to separate activities or instead, more integrated management to pursue multiuse in time or space. Understanding these trade-offs is especially urgent in the current context of planning marine resources on the North Sea, characterized by lack of coordination, sectoral and fragmented planning, which exacerbates the uncertainties on the potential socio-economic and ecological risks of interaction. In response to these challenges, this thesis aimed to: Develop and demonstrate a set of integrated analytical tools for quantifying and qualifying the spatially explicit trade-offs between offshore spatial claims, in the context of the energy system transition in the North Sea basin. The analytical frameworks developed and used in this study relied and benefited from multiple interactions with multiple research disciplines and methodologies developed as part of the larger network of the ENSYSTRA project.
Balancing Spatial and Environmental Impacts of large scale Renewable Offshore Energy Generation in the North Sea
The growing EU energy ambitions in the North Sea region are urging for an accelerated deployment of large-scale renewable energy (RE) infrastructure, with offshore wind farms (OWF) playing an essential role. However, implementing the current EU targets can be limited by the multiple competing spatial claims between existing sea uses, ecological values and OWFs, causing key uncertainties related to potential risks of interaction that may result in barriers to a swift roll-out of RE infrastructure. Up to this date there is no clear understanding of the space availability for different renewable energy installations. Such space availability depends on the alternative space management options applied, relying e.g. on more sectoral management to separate activities or instead, more integrated management to pursue multiuse in time or space. Understanding these trade-offs is especially urgent in the current context of planning marine resources on the North Sea, characterized by lack of coordination, sectoral and fragmented planning, which exacerbates the uncertainties on the potential socio-economic and ecological risks of interaction. In response to these challenges, this thesis aimed to: Develop and demonstrate a set of integrated analytical tools for quantifying and qualifying the spatially explicit trade-offs between offshore spatial claims, in the context of the energy system transition in the North Sea basin. The analytical frameworks developed and used in this study relied and benefited from multiple interactions with multiple research disciplines and methodologies developed as part of the larger network of the ENSYSTRA project.
Balancing Spatial and Environmental Impacts of large scale Renewable Offshore Energy Generation in the North Sea
Guşatu, Laura (author)
2023-01-01
Guşatu , L 2023 , ' Balancing Spatial and Environmental Impacts of large scale Renewable Offshore Energy Generation in the North Sea ' , Doctor of Philosophy , University of Groningen , [Groningen] . https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.841374850
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