1. Marine Planning and Licensing Policy
Offshore Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy Breakthrough

2. Policy
EU 20,20,20.
Scottish Response:
100% electricity consumption from green energy sources by 2020.
Cut CO2 emissions by 42% by 2020.
Strategic planning policy to deliver marine renewables:
Spatial Planning
Efficient Licensing
Research Gaps
Regional Initiatives

3. Spatial Planning EU Directive based approach SEA
Strategic HRA
Socio-economics
Public Participation
Main outputs to deliver sustainable development
Sectoral Marine Plans
Regional Locational Guidance

4. Sectoral Marine Planning
Stage 1 Scoping
Constraint and opportunity mapping
Scoping Report
Stage 2 Plan Option Identification
Non Statutory Consultation
Draft Regional Locational Guidance
Initial Plan Framework
Stage 3 Sustainability Appraisal
SEA, sHRA, Socio-economic Assessment
Draft Plan
Stage 4 Statutory Consultation
Regional and Sectoral Consultation
Consultation Analysis
Stage 5 Plan Adoption
Plan Publication
Post Adoption Statement and Appropriate Assessment

5. Sectoral Marine Planning
SEA on Wave and Tidal Energy (2007)
Regional Locational Guidance for
Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters (2009)
The Saltire Prize (2010)
Offshore Wind Sectoral Marine Plan (2011)
Draft Regional Locational Guidance and Initial Plan Frameworks for:
Tidal,
Wave and
reviewed Offshore Wind (2013)
Propose to publish SMPs (2014)
Strategic Marine Plan for Grid (2015?)

6. 2011 Marine Scotland Science Scoping Report
- Constraint layer clipped by depth used to identify potential floating turbine areas
Additional Layers:
Wind Resource
Electrical Substation
Cable & Cable Landings
Wave activity
Proximity to Harbour
Constraint level

7. First Step… Scoping exercises undertaken in late 2011 – early 2012
OFFSHORE WIND
WAVE
TIDAL

8. The Plan for Offshore Wind Energy

9. Regional Locational Guidance
Guidance, not statutory, multi purpose to:
build a Sectoral Marine Plan.
establish test and demonstration sites.
to select site in a plan area.
Constraints include fishing grounds, shipping lanes and environmental designations
Opportunities include resource areas, grid connections and port facilities

10. Layers included into each theme
Environmental Theme
Industrial Theme
Experience has led us to collate the layers to be used in the MaRS tool into 3 groups.
Similar layers are grouped into one of three themes, environmental, industrial or socio-cultural.
These pictures represent some but not all of the layers included into each of the themes.
For MaRS we use the most up to date and relevant layers possible.
Socio-cultural theme 10

12. And here - finally Monetary value for the whole interview set
Shows the FoF as a highly significant area for small vessel earnings relative to some - important mainly from the point of view of crab and lobster and Nephrops trawl fisheries 12

13. Licensing Policy
Sectoral Marine Plan helps drive project screening and scoping
SMP provide regional and national data sources
Formed one stop shop to cover Licensing
Produced Licensing Manual for offshore wind wave and tidal energy development
Licensing Policy Guidance
Environmental Site Survey and Monitoring
Survey, Deploy and Monitor Guidance (where we are dealing with new technology or unknown impact)
Visual Impact
Design Envelope
Etc. etc.

14. Socio-economic impact
Navigation Traffic Assessments
Tourism and Recreation Studies
Fishing
Sensitivity mapping
Spawning and nursery grounds
VMS tracks vessels greater than 15m length
Scotmap
Vessels less than 15m activities plotted by interview (934 successful interviews, 10% decline rate)
Spatial coverage, targeted species, gear type, vessel earnings
Compared against FIN landings database

15. Socio-economic mitigation
Developer – Enterprise Agency involvement in information and costing stages with supply chain to identify potential for investment
Scenario-mapping to examine developer proposals for manufacturing, installation and maintenance activity
International Liaison to explain MS approach to planning and licensing to encourage inward investment
Developer commitment to ‘local’ content including training and investment

16. Survey, Deploy and Monitor
Offshore wind, wave and tidal new technologies
Gaps in knowledge – environmental impacts
Guidance:
Phase in new technology development using risk based approach
Promote test and demonstration approach, including reduced commitment to cumulative and in combination effects
Early array deployment based upon:
Scale of development, with preference for single device to small array,
Environmental sensitivity of location, avoiding designated areas,
Evaluation of impact risks, based upon device characteristics.
Demonstration
EMEC
Environmental Monitoring Strategy
Sound of Islay 10 tidal turbine array
Active Sonar
Seal Tagging

17. Research: Gaps in knowledge
Sectoral Planning and Licensing uncover gaps and identifies sensitivities
Issues
Sea Bird Collision and Exclusion
Marine Mammals Collision, Noise and Vibration
Diadromous Fish EMF, Collision, Noise and Vibration
Licensing/Consenting Issues
Species Habitats (SACs and SPAs) Identification
Range and characteristics of species (flight heights or swim depths)
Interaction with development sites (site surveys, strategic monitoring)
Impacts (potential collision, displacements, disorientation)
Mitigations

18. ORJIP Projects Overview
Project 1: Avoidance Rate Monitoring at Existing Sites to improve Collision Risk Assessments for Sensitive Bird Species
Project 2: Gathering Evidence of Population Level Effects of Noise Disturbance on Marine Mammals
Project 3: Trials of Noise Mitigation Equipment Designed to Stop Piling Noise reaching Marine Mammals
Project 4: Developing Acoustic Deterrent Devices to keep Marine Mammals away from Piling Operations
ORJIP Programme Management
Impact Assessment Projects
Impact Mitigation Projects
Purple project is the bird project recommended by SOSS
Blue projects are the marine mammal projects recommended by the Underwater Noise Group
ORJIP Project Management will be funded by TCE, MS and DECC, but developers are being asked to contribute to the four research projects.
Feedback to date suggests that a further bird displacement project might also be required. 18

19. Diadromous Fish Regional Focus No predicted impact but knowledge gaps
Pentland Firth (Wave and Tidal Resource)
Moray Firth (Offshore Wind Resource)
No predicted impact but knowledge gaps
Some impact hypothesis identified
MSS paper to be published
Project Manager being appointed
Potential projects include:
EMF Tank testing
Noise and vibration
Marine Turbine collision
Migratory in river fish counters
Satellite and acoustic tagging

20. Strategic Monitoring Review of current monitoring to be published
East Coast Monitoring Report covering proposals for:
Aerial HiDef Digital Survey
PAM Network
Acoustic and Satellite Tagging
Moray Firth Dolphin and Seal Regional Data Study
Photo ID
Intensive C-pod network and databank

21. East coast passive acoustic monitoring array
CPODs and SM2Ms to detect dolphins and porpoises

22. University of Aberdeen CPOD array in Moray Firth

23. Current Offshore Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy Development Options