COMBINING WAVE ENERGY AND FLOATING WIND UK LAUNCHES TEST SITE IN WALES

摘要

In the UK, which formally left the EU on 31 January 2020 and severed all remaining ties as of 1 January 2021, more than 10GW of offshore wind is already in operation and the development pipeline exceeds 50GW. Speaking at WindEnergy Hamburg 2020, the head of offshore at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Yuen Cheung, said developers in the UK are already coming up against cumulative impact issues around birds, noise and radar, even without factoring in future new uses of the sea. In conjunction with seabed landlord the Crown Estate, BEIS has set up an offshore-wind evidence and change programme to bring stakeholders together -from NGOs to developers and statutory conservation bodies -to examine barriers in the marine environment and identify more strategic approaches.