Wave Farms

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Wave Farms

File:Layer Wave Farms.png
Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Energy

Description

Wave Farms are composed by a series of devices, that can harnest the energy of waves. Although this devices are floating, they are achored to the sea floor, so they do not drift away. There are many shapes and sizes of wave energy converters, so we refrain to ilustrate them here.

MSP Challenge

Wave Farms are used to produce green energy, in the MSP challenge the calculated amount of energy produced by a wind farm is based on its area.

Wave farms are depicted as polygons, i.e., geometric shapes that you can draw in, edit or remove when making a plan. They create the following pressures on the ecosystem:

• Artificial Substrate
• Noise
• Surface Disturbance
• Bottom Disturbace during construction only

Return to energy.

Placement Restrictions

The placement restrictions decide whether the overlap of spatial elements causes:

Errors - Impossible to place these layers on top of each other due to physical limitations.

Warnings - Warnings that it should be done, but won't stop the placement.

	Error	Warning
Country		x
National Shipping Lanes	x
Fairways	x
IMO Route	x
IMO Route	x
IMO Route	x
IMO Route	x

Precautionary areas - warning

Natura 2000 - warning

oil and gas platforms

Pressure on Ecology

The ecological pressures are scaled on a level from 0 to 1; with 0 meaning no pressure, and 1 meaning the maximal impact on that pressure.

State	Artificial Substrate	Noise	Surface Disturbance	Bottom Disturbance
Under construction	0	1	0.5	0.8
In production	0.3	0.2	0.2	0

Wind farms disallow all the bottom trawl, and industrial and pelagic trawl fishing fleets. Drift and fixed nets fleets are only disallowed during construction.

Types

• 3MW

Metadata

Data Source

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Original Title

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Description

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Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd North Sea

Methodology

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Types

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Metadata

Data Source

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Original Title

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Description

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Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Baltic Sea

Methodology

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Types

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Metadata

Data Source

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Original Title

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Description

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Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Clyde Marine Region

Methodology

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Types

None

Metadata

Data Source

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Original Title

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Description

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Creation Date

yyyy-mm-dd Adriatic Sea

Methodology

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