Wind Farms

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Wind Farms

Layer Info
Category	Human Activities
Sub-category	Energy
Energy Type	Green
Editable	Yes
Bathymetry Min	0m
Bathymetry Max	-150m
Resource	Wind Speed

Description

Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the use of wind farms constructed in bodies of water, usually in the ocean on the continental shelf, to harvest wind energy to generate electricity. Higher wind speeds are available offshore compared to on land, so offshore wind power’s contribution in terms of electricity supplied is higher, and NIMBY opposition to construction is usually much weaker. Unlike the typical usage of the term "offshore" in the marine industry, offshore wind power includes inshore water areas such as lakes, fjords and sheltered coastal areas, utilizing traditional fixed-bottom wind turbine technologies, as well as deeper-water areas utilizing floating wind turbines.

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MSP Challenge

Wind Farms are used to produce green energy, the production amount is calculated based on the maximum amount of energy that can be produced in the designated area.

Wind Farms are 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 during construction only
• Bottom Disturbace during construction only

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

• 6MW
• 6MW Floating Wind

Metadata

Data Source

Adapted from https://odims.ospar.org/odims_data_files/ and merged with existing wind parks from NL: https://www.noordzeeloket.nl/en/up-date-atlas/

Original Title

Description

Details of the location and status of offshore renewable energy developments in the OSPAR region, combined with details from the Noordzeeloket for the Dutch EEZ (The last dataset is made from supplied and verified information from developers, after which these are recorded in permits).

Creation Date

2017/10

Methodology

Types

• 6MW Wind
• 6MW Floating Wind
• 10MW Wind
• 3MW Wave
• 3MW Tidal

Metadata

Data Source

HELCOM HOLAS II Dataset: Wind farms (2018)

Original Title

Wind farms

Description

"The data set contains information on the location of individual turbines of the offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea area.

In addition to information on the location of the wind farms, the following information is included: Name, Country, Status (Generating power or under construction), Company, Capacity MW (whole park), number of turbines (whole park), construction year and source."

Description retrieved from HELCOM's metadata page for this resource (2021-07-19).

Creation Date

2016-04-06

Methodology

The layer was implemented without modifications.

Types

None

Metadata

Data Source

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Types

• 6MW
• 6MW Floating Wind

Metadata

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yyyy-mm-dd Adriatic Sea

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