Offshore Renewable Energy

Rinaldi, Giovanni

doi:10.5772/intechopen.91662

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“…In France, offshore renewable energy in Brittany was the case study analysed. It is a sector that is promoted by the Multiannual Energy Programme implemented at the state level, and there are plans to increase the capacity for renewable energy in Brittany [59]. Regarding the environmental aspect of SBG in this case study, from the identified environmental challenges that the sector needs to address, those that were also relevant at the regional level are "the addressing of visual impacts of offshore energy installations and "the difficulty in assessment of trade-offs between environmental benefits from ORE and environmental costs from ORE".…”

Section: Marine Renewable Energy In Francementioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising Marine Biodiversity Mainstreaming as an Enabler of Regional Sustainable Blue Growth: The Case of the European Atlantic Area

Kyriazi,

de Almeida,

Marhadour

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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After recognizing the importance of marine and coastal resources and the use of marine space for economic growth, the European Union (EU) created and implemented a long-term Blue Economy (BE) strategy that supports the development of traditional and emerging marine and maritime sectors, aiming at the enhancement of Blue Growth (BG). However, despite the existence of a robust policy framework that supports the expansion of BE sectors at both an EU Sea Basin and state level, scholars have been sceptical as to whether the pursuit of BG adequately addresses the challenges that usually come with economic development, including those of climate change and marine biodiversity loss. Various frameworks for integrating sectoral goals with each other and with environmental goals that could facilitate the transition towards Sustainable Blue Growth (SBG) already exist and have been suggested and promoted by the European Commission, such as Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). They require the consideration of marine ecosystems and biodiversity and their protection as one of the BE sectors to be integrated via planning and management, which in turn requires the estimation of the value of ecosystem services and the spatial implications thereof. Nonetheless, there is little evidence or real-world examples on whether and how ecosystems, and within them coastal and marine biodiversity, are actually integrated (i.e., mainstreamed) when developing sectoral policies and planning and implementing economic activities at sea at various scales, i.e., local, national, and regional, and what the necessary steps and actions are that would facilitate such mainstreaming. By seeking evidence in EU and Atlantic Arc (AA) member states’ sectoral policies on marine tourism, ports and shipping, marine renewable energy, and fisheries and aquaculture (as promoted by the Atlantic Maritime Strategy and its corresponding action plans) and in the outcomes of the Interreg Atlantic Funded Research Project MOSES (aiming at valuating a Sustainable Blue Economy at the national and regional scale of the EU AA), the present article focused on understanding if and how marine biodiversity is taken into consideration by EU and AA BE and/or BG policies, strategies, and sectoral developments. Τhe selected sectoral policies demonstrate a good uptake of marine-ecosystem- and biodiversity-related challenges; however, at both the EU and the AA member-state level, it is unclear whether and how marine ecosystems and biodiversity are addressed as a separate BE sector. As such, we argue why and how Marine Biodiversity Mainstreaming (MBM) could address this gap, and hence it could contribute to planning, implementing, and managing maritime economic activities towards SBG at the Sea Basin level. This is demonstrated by illustrating the central role of MBM in enabling (and being further enabled by) the above integrative frameworks (i.e., MSP and EBM) and by presenting the key elements and actions required for such facilitation.

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Section: Marine Renewable Energy In Francementioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising Marine Biodiversity Mainstreaming as an Enabler of Regional Sustainable Blue Growth: The Case of the European Atlantic Area

Kyriazi,

de Almeida,

Marhadour

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…These are reviewed and catalogued according to their purpose, characteristics, working principle and underlying methodology. As offshore wind is the most mature technology among ocean renewables, most of the tools have been developed specifically for this technology [19]. Nonetheless, many of these O&M models are flexible or can be easily adapted to other marine renewables [25].…”

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“…Several methods have been proposed to fill the gaps and aid the reconstruction of the full dataset [74]. Guidelines, practical aspects, potential and limitations of SCADA and purpose-designed CM systems are provided in [19,56,[75][76][77][78][79][80]. Review papers describing the state-of-the-art in CM systems include [56,67,[81][82][83].…”

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Current Status and Future Trends in the Operation and Maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines: A Review

2021

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Operation and maintenance constitute a substantial share of the lifecycle expenditures of an offshore renewable energy farm. A noteworthy number of methods and techniques have been developed to provide decision-making support in strategic planning and asset management. Condition monitoring instrumentation is commonly used, especially in offshore wind farms, due to the benefits it provides in terms of fault identification and performance evaluation and improvement. Incorporating technology advancements, a shift towards automation and digitalisation is taking place in the offshore maintenance sector. This paper reviews the existing literature and novel approaches in the operation and maintenance planning and the condition monitoring of offshore renewable energy farms, with an emphasis on the offshore wind sector, discussing their benefits and limitations. The state-of-the-art in industrial condition-based maintenance is reviewed, together with deterioration models and fault diagnosis and prognosis techniques. Future scenarios in robotics, artificial intelligence and data processing are investigated. The application challenges of these strategies and Industry 4.0 concepts in the offshore renewables sector are scrutinised, together with the potential implications of early-stage project integration. The identified technologies are ranked against a series of indicators, providing a reference for a range of industry stakeholders.

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Powering the Blue Economy: An Assessment of Marine Renewable Energies

Guduru

Narula

2022

The Blue Economy

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Offshore Renewable Energy

Cited by 4 publications

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Conceptualising Marine Biodiversity Mainstreaming as an Enabler of Regional Sustainable Blue Growth: The Case of the European Atlantic Area

Conceptualising Marine Biodiversity Mainstreaming as an Enabler of Regional Sustainable Blue Growth: The Case of the European Atlantic Area

Current Status and Future Trends in the Operation and Maintenance of Offshore Wind Turbines: A Review

Powering the Blue Economy: An Assessment of Marine Renewable Energies

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