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- Report:
Muxika et al.
As summarized in the Deliverable 2.1 (Vinagre et al., 2019)1, the Work Package 2 of the WESE project aims to collect, process, analyse and share the environmental data in three areas affected by different types of wave energy projects, i.e.: (1) oscillating water column device deployed offshore – MARMOK-A-5 developed by IDOM – in the Biscay Marine Energy Platform test site (BiMEP) located in…
- Thesis:
Isaksson
As climate change becomes a more pressing reality in the 21st century, governments around the world are setting targets to meet electricity production demand from renewable energy sources such as tidal streams. However, tidal stream environments are also important habitats for marine wildlife, including seabirds. Risk of collision and habitat displacement are the major negative effects of…
- Journal Article:
Spicer et al.
Tidal energy extraction is increasingly being studied as a potential renewable energy resource in estuaries worldwide. Although it is understood that energy extraction via tidal stream turbines can modify currents and transport within estuaries, it is not clear how the underlying nonlinear physical mechanisms dictating tidal hydrodynamics are modulated. This research investigates the influence…
- Report:
Moskeland
DNV AS has carried out an Environmental benthos survey at the Equinor-operated wind farm Hywind Scotland, situated 25 km off the coast of Peterhead in Scotland, UK. There are still uncertainties regarding the potential environmental impact from a floating wind park due to the floating technology being a relative novel development solution. Using the world’s first operational floating offshore…
- Report:
Hestetun and Dahlgren
Environmental impact assessment and regular environmental monitoring of marine life are prerequisites for the construction, operation, and decommissioning of offshore wind farms (OWFs). Molecular methods such as metagenomics, quantitative PCR or metabarcoding, are increasingly being considered as a possible complement or alternative to currently used marine baseline and monitoring methods,…
- Journal Article:
Festjens et al.
There is an increasing awareness that knowledge of the functional diversity of a community is key to understand how the community responds to environmental and anthropogenic pressures. The Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS) represents a highly dynamic area that is subject to a variety of human activities. The main objective of this study is to investigate the…
- Conference Paper:
Willmott et al.
Knowledge of the movement and behaviour of birds and bats around turbines in the offshore marine environment is critical for assessing the environmental impacts of offshore wind developments in the eastern USA. To address the problem of gathering high-quality, long-term data on these species in this remote environment, we designed a multi-sensor system that was recently deployed for 6 months…
- Journal Article:
James
In a recent article (James 2008) I provided information about some bird species nesting near wind turbines, where I had found nests for those species. In this articleI will look more generally at bird populations in areas near wind turbines, as revealed by breeding bird surveys. In order to try to assess any potential effects of wind turbines on bird populations, it is usual to undertake a…
- Journal Article:
Van de Pol et al.
Increased pressures from human activities may cause cumulative ecological effects on marine ecosystems. Increasingly, the study of ecosystem services is applied in the marine environment to assess the full effects of human activities on the ecosystem and on the benefits it provides. However, in the marine environment, such integrated studies have yet to move from qualitative and scorebased to…
- Journal Article:
Thatcher et al.
As offshore wind energy developments increase globally in response to climate change, it is important to gain an understanding of the effects they are having on the marine environment. Whilst there is growing information on the types of organisms present within these sites, our knowledge of how species interact with these sites is limited. For the first time we examined the movements and…
- Guidance:
Natural Resource Wales
This guidance has been produced by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to provide advice to developers about the information needed to inform environmental assessments of tidal lagoon developments in Welsh waters. The document provides an overview of the key environmental implications of tidal lagoon development in Wales. The guidance is not exhaustive and does not replace the need for…
- Journal Article:
Fockert et al.
Hydraulic structures can be a promising place for tidal energy extraction due to the high flow velocities, easy access to the power grid and easy access for maintenance. However, quantification of the impacts of a tidal power plant in a hydraulic structure is not straight forward. In 2015 a pilot plant consisting of an array of five Tocardo tidal turbines was installed in the Eastern Scheldt…
- Report:
Environmental Design & Research
This report supplements the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Construction and Operations Plan. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), passed in 1976 and amended in 1996, requires that an Essential Fish Habitat (EFH…
- Report:
Morandi et al.
This report supplements the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Construction and Operations Plan. Atlantic Shores will implement a benthic monitoring plan to measure and assess the disturbance and recovery of marine benthic habitats and communities as a result of…
- Journal Article:
Bordbar et al.
Waterbodies’ thermal energy potential, as a green, renewable, and limitless source of energy, can be exploited in response to the growing energy demands of islands and coastal cities. Up to now, the technologies that have been developed for this purpose include seawater air-conditioning, surface water heat pump, and ocean energy thermal conversion systems or their combinations, which are…
- Report:
Fox
This deliverable provides a critical analysis of management measures that can be used to mitigate or manage the potential environmental effects of wave and tidal energy developments. The aim of this deliverable is to critically analyse the environmental mitigation and monitoring measures that have been used to date in completed or planned wave and tidal energy projects. This will provide…
- Journal Article:
Chambel et al.
Due to the marine environment's complexity, optimising offshore foundations' design is still a major focus of the scientific and industrial community, since foundations represent a large portion of the total investment. Scour is one of the main causes that lead to ultimate, and service limit states, impacting design optimization and costs. Scour at monopile foundations has been extensively…
- Journal Article:
Abecasis et al.
Background: Globally, there are a large and growing number of researchers using biotelemetry as a tool to study aquatic animals. In Europe, this community lacks a formal network structure. The aim of this study is to review the use of acoustic telemetry in Europe and document the contribution of cross-boundary studies and inter-research group collaborations. Based on this, we…
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Scott et al.
A proportion of the Scottish Executives 2020 target for renewable energy is expected to come from marine technologies including offshore windfarms. Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) supports offshore renewable energy which is compatible with natural heritage interests, as set out in its Policy on Renewable Energy (SNH, 2002). Scottish seascapes are renowned and valued for their natural heritage…
- Journal Article:
Kinani et al.
Installed wind-generation capacity has been rapidly expanding globally and in France. In this article, we conduct a structured literature review on resources related, technical, economic, environmental and social aspects regarding onshore and offshore wind, with a focus on France. On the technical side, we cover the whole energy conversion chain. For economic aspects, we review different costs…
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