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.
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 and assumes maximal potential production.
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:
Return to energy.
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.
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.
Wave farms disallow all the bottom trawl, industrial and pelagic trawl, and drift and fixed nets fleets.
Rijkswaterstaat data drawn by hand to incorporate in a previous version of the MSP Challenge.
Not available.
Not available. Previous than 2016.
Reprojected the data layer to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).
Not applicable. For the MSP Challenge Baltic Sea Edition, wave farms are included under "Renewable Energy Sources", please refer to the "Wind Farms" page.
This data layer is not available in the Clyde Marine Region Edition.
At the time of the development of the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition (2020), there was no data available regarding wave farms in the Adriatic Sea. This data layer is for planning purposes only.
Not applicable, there were no wave farms in the Adriatic Sea at the time of the development of the MSP Challenge Adriatic Sea Edition (2020).
At the time of the development of the MSP Challenge Eastern Mediterranean Sea (2022/2023), there was no data available regarding wave farms in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
This data layer is for planning purposes only.
Wave farms disallow all the bottom trawl, trawl, seiners, small-scale coastal, recreation and artisanal fleets.
Not applicable, there were no wave farms in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea at the time of the development of the MSP Challenge Eastern Mediterranean Sea Edition (2022/2023).
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