Wave and Tidal Energy - European Commission · wave and tidal energy proposals. Survey Deploy and Monitor Three main factors: 1. Environmental sensitivity (of the development location)

Wave and Tidal Energy

Lindsay Leask

Senior Policy Manager – Offshore Renewables

Total Installed Capacity in Scotland

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Emissions Reductions in Scotland

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Installed Capacity by Technology

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Pre-operational Capacity in Scotland

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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

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.

Have we:

• Reduced the risk for first

movers?

• Reduce consenting costs?

• Reduce delays?

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

Europe’s largest,

consented tidal stream

development

86MW

61 turbines

• 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

[email protected]

scottishrenewables.com