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Experts to look at ways of accelerating the approval of offshore energy projects
February 3, 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications No Comments | Category Collaborations, Marine Directorate general, Marine Directorate Science, Marine News from other Organisations
Marine Scotland Science is currently involved in a new project to accelerate and streamline the environmental requirements associated with consents for offshore wind, wave and tidal projects.
The RiCORE project, led by the Robert Gordon University (Scotland) and including teams from Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France and Scotland, has been awarded €1.4 million from the European Commission’s competitive Horizon 2020 programme to tackle one of the key barriers to the deployment of offshore energy – consenting and environmental impacts.
The project came out of an agreed desire to improve the way that small scale wave and tidal developments are consented and Dr. Ian Davies from Marine Scotland Science said:
“The aim is to develop risk profiles based on a number of environmental and technical factors such as the scale of the project, the type of device, whether or not it is an existing technology – and the environmental sensitivity of the marine environment. Developments with low risk profiles can potentially be fast tracked.”
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