Development and application of a multiple-attribute decision-analysis methodology for site selection of floating offshore wind farms on the UK Continental Shelf

The Offshore Wind sector is a major, dynamic, and rapidly evolving renewable energy industry. This is particularly so in Europe, and especially in the UK. Associated with the growth of the industry has been a growth of interest in community benefits as voluntary measures provided by a developer to the host community. However, in many cases, and for some of the large North Sea distant offshore wind farms, the benefits packages have been disparate and pro rata much smaller than for the well-established onshore wind farm industry. However, there are signs of change. This paper explores the issues of community benefits for the UK offshore sector and evolving practice, as reflected in a macro study of the adoption of community benefits approaches across the industry. This is followed by a more in-depth micro- approach, which explores approaches that have been adopted in three case studies of recent OWF projects — Aberdeen, Beatrice and the Hornsea Array. Whilst there is still much divergence in practice, there are also examples of some convergence, and the development of a more replicable practice. Particularly notable is the adoption of annual community benefits funds, as the key element of community benefits schemes/agreements between developers, local authorities and local communities.

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Offshore Wind Farms: A Fuzzy Approach to Site Selection in a Black Sea Region

2020 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) ◽

10.1109/tpec48276.2020.9042530 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Muhammet Deveci ◽

Ender Ozcan ◽

Robert John

Keyword(s):

Black Sea ◽

Site Selection ◽

Wind Farms ◽

Offshore Wind ◽

Fuzzy Approach ◽

Offshore Wind Farms ◽

Black Sea Region

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An Investigation of the Ship Safety Distance for Bridges across Waterways Based on Traffic Distribution

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering ◽

10.3390/jmse8050331 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 331 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Woo-Ju Son ◽

Jeong-Seok Lee ◽

Hyeong-Tak Lee ◽

Ik-Soon Cho

Keyword(s):

Confidence Interval ◽

Wind Farms ◽

Offshore Wind ◽

Z Score ◽

Safe Distance ◽

Offshore Wind Farms ◽

Safety Distance ◽

Traffic Distribution ◽

The Uk ◽

Ship Safety

For ship passage safety, a bridge across a waterway is a risk for accidents. However, no standard for the safe distance between a bridge and a ship is available in Korea. The UK MCA considers the 90% confidence interval of traffic distribution as the acceptable passage range, using it for measuring the separation between offshore wind farms. In this study, an optimal ship safety distance is proposed by evaluating traffic distribution at the Incheon and Busan harbor bridges and analyzing the confidence intervals. The results, based on the Z-score, reveal that at the Incheon bridge, all but one ship for 2-way departure were in circulation within the 95% confidence interval range, whereas at the Busan harbor bridge, six ships for arrival and two ships for departure were outside the 95% range. Based on the results of this study, the design of bridges across waterways can incorporate traffic distribution corresponding to each port.

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