Wave and Tidal Energy Lindsay Leask Senior Policy Manager Offshore - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Wave and Tidal Energy Lindsay Leask Senior Policy Manager – Offshore Renewables

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Licensing - Striking the Right Balance Risk: Unduly onerous requirements pre- deployment (survey & baseline evidence gathering) and post deployment (monitoring) Impacts : • Punishes first movers • High costs of engaging with complex procedures • Delays as developers are unwilling to take on financial exposure before achieving consent RUK

Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 • Compliments the UK Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 • Covers: • Marine Planning • Marine Licensing • Marine Protected Areas

Planning Scotland’s Seas

Planning Scotland’s Seas Vision: • Clean • healthy • safe • productive • biologically diverse oceans and seas • managed to meet the long term needs of nature and people.

Planning Scotland’s Seas • generate electricity equivalent to 50% of Scotland's gross annual electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2015 and 100% by 2020 • To contribute to achieving the decarbonisation target of 50gCO2/kWh by 2030 to cut carbon emissions from electricity generation by more than four-fifths.

Have we: • Reduced the risk for first movers? • Reduce consenting costs? • Reduce delays?

Survey, Deploy and Monitor to provide regulators, and developers, with an efficient risk- based approach for taking forward wave and tidal energy proposals.

Survey Deploy and Monitor Three main factors: 1. Environmental sensitivity (of the development location) 2. Scale of Development; and 3. Device or Technology Classification

Europe’s largest, consented tidal stream development 86MW 61 turbines

Phased Development • consent is conditional upon the Company deploying the turbines in stages • Stage One of the Development being limited to a maximum of 6 turbines • all Subsequent Stages of the Development being subject to the prior written approval of the Scottish Ministers

Conclusion Have we: • Reduced the risk for first movers? • Reduce consenting costs? • Reduce delays?

Thank you. Lindsay Leask Senior Policy Manager – Offshore Renewables lleask@scottishrenewables.com scottishrenewables.com