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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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:
Wind farms disallow all the bottom trawl, and industrial and pelagic trawl fishing fleets. Drift and fixed nets fleets are only disallowed during construction.
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 limitation.
Warnings - Warnings that it should be done, but wont stop the placement.
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.
The source of existing wind parks in The Netherlands has been updated for the Dutch EEZ according to data from the Rijkswaterstaat, retrieved on 2020-02. For the rest of the North Sea area the source is OSPAR.
From rijkswaterstaat: Aangewezen windgebieden NWP
From OSPAR: Not available.
From rijkswaterstaat: Not available.
From OSPAR: Details of the location and status of offshore renewable energy developments in the OSPAR region,
Retrieved on 2017/10. Updated
The wind farms that are in operation were implemented in the energy simulation as such.
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.
At the moment in the Baltic Sea there are only 6MW wind turbines, but the following types are available for planning purposes:
HELCOM HOLAS II Dataset: Wind farms (2018)
Wind farms
"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).
2016-04-06
Not applicable. At the moment of development of the Clyde Marine Region edition there were no wind farms in the region. This layer exists just for planning purposes.
Not applicable. Pressure calculation is not present in the Adriatic Sea Edition.
Not applicable.
At the moment of development of the Clyde Marine Region edition there were no wind farms in the region. This layer exists just for planning purposes.
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