Risk Retirement Outreach & Engagement

OES-Environmental continues to engage the marine renewable energy (MRE) community (i.e., developers, regulators and advisors, researchers, and stakeholders) and subject matter experts throughout the development of the risk retirement process. OES-Environmental hosts workshops and webinars to share progress, further understanding, and solicit feedback. Subscribe to the Tethys Blast to receive notifications for future OES-Environmental webinars, workshops, and other events.

2022

• Brochure: Marine Renewable Energy: An Introduction to Environmental Effects (March 2022)

• OES-Environmental Workshop: Supporting Regulatory Decision-Making for Environmental Effects of MRE (risk retirement and guidance documents)

  • International Regulator Workshop (online; December 2022)

  • US Regulator Workshop (online; February 2022) 

2021

• OES-Environmental Workshop: OREC 2021 (online; September 2021)

• OES-Environmental Webinar: Guidance Documents for Risk Retirement (online; September 2021)

• OES-Environmental Workshop: Environmental Effects of Offshore Energy: International Knowledge and the Chilean Perspective (online; April 2021)

• OES-Environmental & ORJIP Workshop: Collision risk to marine mammals from tidal turbines: next steps towards understanding and retiring risk (online; March 2021)

• OES-Environmental & ORJIP Workshop: Collision risk to fish from tidal turbines: next steps towards understanding and retiring risk (online; March 2021)

2020

• OES-Environmental Webinar: Risk Retirement for Marine Renewable Energy (online; September 2020)

• OES-Environmental Workshop: Risk Retirement for Habitat Change (online; August 2020)

  • Workshop Report

• Report: Risk Retirement for Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy 

• Publication: Risk Retirement - Decreasing Uncertainty and Informing Consenting Processes for Marine Renewable Energy Development

• Report: OES-Environmental 2020 State of the Science Report: Environmental Effects of Marine Renewable Energy Development Around the World 

  • Report Chapter: Risk Retirement and Data Transferability for Marine Renewable Energy 

2019

• OES-Environmental & ORJIP Workshop: Environmental Effects and Risk Retirement (Sydney, Australia; December 2019)
  • Workshop Report
• OES-Environmental Workshop: Retiring Risk for MRE Projects to Support Permitting (OREC, Portland, Oregon; September 2019) 
  • Workshop Report
• OES-Environmental & ORJIP Workshop: Retiring Risks of MRE Environmental Interactions to Support Consenting/Permitting (EWTEC, Napoli, Italy; September 2019)
  • Presentation
  • Workshop Report
• OES-Environmental Workshop: Retiring Risk and Data Transferability Workshops for US Regulators (online; May 2019)
  • Presentation
  • Recording