Dealing with the risk of licensing marine renewables: The role and experience of regulators
The RiCORE project aims at designing ways to accelerate and streamline the environmental requirements associated with consents for novel marine renewable technologies, including offshore wind, wave an...
Abstract
The RiCORE project aims at designing ways to accelerate and streamline the environmental requirements associated with consents for novel marine renewable technologies, including offshore wind, wave and tidal projects. Organisations from Scotland, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and France are participating in this project, which has been awarded funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. In the course of the project, several workshops covering all aspects of consenting of Marine Renewable Energy projects will be organized to collect the views and opinions of national experts. The objectives of this workshop are to: Determine current national consenting practices, operational experiences and difficulties Compare and contrast approaches to implementation of over-arching EU legislation – e.g. EIA, Habitats etc. Introduce risk-based management approaches using the Survey, Deploy & Monitor (SDM) methodology as an example Discuss the potential legal and regulatory issues potentially associated with implementation of a risk-based management approach Identify what is required to enable a risk-based management approach The outcomes of the workshop will be used by the RiCORE project team to report on the feasibility of adopting a risk-based management approach, using the Survey Deploy and Monitor (SDM) policy developed in Scotland as an example.
Abstract
The RiCORE project aims at designing ways to accelerate and streamline the environmental requirements associated with consents for novel marine renewable technologies, including offshore wind, wave and tidal projects. Organisations from Scotland, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and France are participating in this project, which has been awarded funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. In the course of the project, several workshops covering all aspects of consenting of Marine Renewable Energy projects will be organized to collect the views and opinions of national experts.
The objectives of this workshop are to:
Determine current national consenting practices, operational experiences and difficulties
Compare and contrast approaches to implementation of over-arching EU legislation – e.g. EIA, Habitats etc.
Introduce risk-based management approaches using the Survey, Deploy & Monitor (SDM) methodology as an example
Discuss the potential legal and regulatory issues potentially associated with implementation of a risk-based management approach
Identify what is required to enable a risk-based management approach The outcomes of the workshop will be used by the RiCORE project team to report on the feasibility of adopting a risk-based management approach, using the Survey Deploy and Monitor (SDM) policy developed in Scotland as an example.
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Year: 2015 Location: Paris, France
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