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Offshore wind leasing in the UK
- Growing an industry
Huub den Rooijen
Head of Offshore Wind
The Crown Estate, UK
www.thecrownestate.co.uk
Seabed leasing
Regulatory
Management
Private sector
leasing rounds or ad-hoc
scale (MW – GW)
grid connection
consents
financial support
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tender process
government coordination
“one stop shop”
knowledge capture
site selection
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Public Private Structures
business case
risk/reward balance
scale (now and future)
supply chain
skills
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Site selection
Economics
Society
Environment
wind resource
metocean
seabed conditions
grid & transmission
ports & logistics
supply chain
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fisheries
navigation
oil & gas
military
air traffic
leisure
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known protected species
unknown species
surveys
cumulative impacts
onshore impacts
monitoring
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UK : 1532 turbines and counting…
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1532 offshore turbines operating or
under construction (5.5 GW)
Offshore wind is a successful power
technology in the UK.
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4% of electricity supply today
Growing to 10% by 2020
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Government “rolling the pitch”, so the
private sector can engage effectively.
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Stakeholder interests should be
integrated at every stage of the process.
Strategic agenda to capture learnings
and drive sector growth
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Government, academia, industry