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Risk: Unduly onerous requirements pre-deployment (survey & baseline evidence gathering) and post deployment (monitoring) Impacts: • Punishes first movers • High costs of engaging with complex
procedures • Delays as developers are unwilling to take
on financial exposure before achieving consent
RUK
Licensing - Striking the Right Balance
Marine (Scotland) Act 2010
• Compliments the UK Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
• Covers:
• Marine Planning • Marine Licensing • Marine Protected Areas
Planning Scotland’s Seas
Vision: • Clean • healthy • safe • productive • biologically
diverse oceans and seas
• managed to meet the long term needs of nature and people.
Planning Scotland’s Seas
• generate electricity equivalent to 50% of Scotland's gross annual electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2015 and 100% by 2020
• To contribute to achieving
the decarbonisation target of 50gCO2/kWh by 2030 to cut carbon emissions from electricity generation by more than four-fifths.
Survey, Deploy and Monitor
to provide regulators, and developers, with an efficient risk-based approach for taking forward wave and tidal energy proposals.
Survey Deploy and Monitor
Three main factors:
1. Environmental sensitivity (of the
development location)
2. Scale of Development; and
3. Device or Technology Classification
• consent is conditional upon the Company deploying the turbines in stages
• Stage One of the Development being limited to a maximum of 6 turbines
• all Subsequent Stages of the Development being subject to the prior written approval of the Scottish Ministers
Phased Development
Have we:
• Reduced the risk for first
movers?
• Reduce consenting costs?
• Reduce delays?
Conclusion
Thank you.
Lindsay Leask
Senior Policy Manager – Offshore Renewables
scottishrenewables.com