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Offshore Wind Licensing
This incisive book provides a timely and magisterial analysis of offshore wind licensing processes and their regulation from a global perspective. It not only explores the concept of licensing and the governance frameworks and backgrounds in which licensing rules are developed, but also looks at the crucial legal challenges facing the licensing of offshore wind farms that regulators, legislatures, operators, and legal practitioners are likely to encounter.
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This incisive book provides a timely and magisterial analysis of offshore wind licensing processes and their regulation from a global perspective. It not only explores the concept of licensing and the governance frameworks and backgrounds in which licensing rules are developed, but also looks at the crucial legal challenges facing the licensing of offshore wind farms that regulators, legislatures, operators, and legal practitioners are likely to encounter.
Interdisciplinary in scope, the book provides an extensive analysis of the authorisation processes for wind parks at sea in multiple prominent jurisdictions. In addition, expert contributors representing an array of diverse perspectives examine key themes such as technology, meteorology, and environmental and maritime planning issues, and consider the pivotal role of wind farms in today’s rapidly evolving energy transition landscape.
Key Features:
● Identifies legislative challenges and current regulatory gaps
● Cutting-edge insights into the latest policy and regulatory trends
● Authoritative commentary on established and emerging offshore wind jurisdictions
● Highlights the crucial role of licensing frameworks in the expansion of offshore wind projects
With its practical focus, Offshore Wind Licensing will be a beneficial read for legal practitioners, academics, and policymakers seeking to understand renewable energy regulation and the authorisation process for generating offshore renewable electricity. Regulators and legislatures in countries with no offshore wind activity will similarly find this to be an indispensable resource.
Interdisciplinary in scope, the book provides an extensive analysis of the authorisation processes for wind parks at sea in multiple prominent jurisdictions. In addition, expert contributors representing an array of diverse perspectives examine key themes such as technology, meteorology, and environmental and maritime planning issues, and consider the pivotal role of wind farms in today’s rapidly evolving energy transition landscape.
Key Features:
● Identifies legislative challenges and current regulatory gaps
● Cutting-edge insights into the latest policy and regulatory trends
● Authoritative commentary on established and emerging offshore wind jurisdictions
● Highlights the crucial role of licensing frameworks in the expansion of offshore wind projects
With its practical focus, Offshore Wind Licensing will be a beneficial read for legal practitioners, academics, and policymakers seeking to understand renewable energy regulation and the authorisation process for generating offshore renewable electricity. Regulators and legislatures in countries with no offshore wind activity will similarly find this to be an indispensable resource.
Critical Acclaim
‘Regulatory and legal challenges constitute the core of this magnificent book, which brings together many experts and perspectives on the legal and regulatory framework in different offshore wind energy jurisdictions.’
– Vicente López-Ibor Mayor, European Federation of Energy Law Associations, Spain
‘This insightful and comprehensive book is an essential reference for practitioners, academics, researchers, or anyone concerned with the contemporary “hot topic” of offshore wind licensing. My colleagues, Prof. I. Herrera Anchustegui and Prof. T. Soliman Hunter, have put together an indispensable global blueprint that will surely become the absolute comparative source for offshore wind licensing.’
– Antonis Metaxas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Hellenic Energy Regulation Institute, Greece
‘This book provides valuable insight into offshore wind energy licensing, project planning, regulatory and technological experience.’
– Allan Ingelson, University of Calgary, Canada
– Vicente López-Ibor Mayor, European Federation of Energy Law Associations, Spain
‘This insightful and comprehensive book is an essential reference for practitioners, academics, researchers, or anyone concerned with the contemporary “hot topic” of offshore wind licensing. My colleagues, Prof. I. Herrera Anchustegui and Prof. T. Soliman Hunter, have put together an indispensable global blueprint that will surely become the absolute comparative source for offshore wind licensing.’
– Antonis Metaxas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Hellenic Energy Regulation Institute, Greece
‘This book provides valuable insight into offshore wind energy licensing, project planning, regulatory and technological experience.’
– Allan Ingelson, University of Calgary, Canada
Contributors
Contributors include: Patrick Achor, Charlotte Bay Hasager, Alice Bouillié, Jack E. Brown, Ezequiel Cassagne, Álvaro Cuesta Adán, Íñigo del Guayo, Haifeng Deng, Birgitte Egelund Olsen, Sigrid Eskeland Schütz, Eirik Finserås, Anton Ming-Zhi Gao, Suchanun Hunsa-Udom, Bent Ole Gram Mortensen, Finn Gunnar Nielsen, Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Anne Marie O’Hagan, John Paterson, Natasha Peter, Joachim Reuder, Alexander Severance, Tina Soliman Hunter, Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta, Emma George Weber, Eddy Wifa
Contents
Contents:
PART I BACKGROUND TO OFFSHORE WIND LICENSING
1 Geographical, technological, and legal perspectives of offshore wind energy 2
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Tina Soliman Hunter
2 Offshore wind technology in a nutshell 16
Finn Gunnar Nielsen
3 Offshore wind resources 28
Charlotte Bay Hasager and Joachim Reuder
4 Environmental considerations in offshore wind licensing 40
Anne Marie O’Hagan
5 Maritime spatial planning and offshore wind energy 59
Anne Marie O’Hagan
PART II NATIONAL OFFSHORE WIND LICENSING APPROACHES
6 Offshore wind licensing in Denmark 83
Birgitte Egelund Olsen and Bent Ole Gram Mortensen
7 Offshore wind licensing in France 105
Natasha Peter, Alice Bouillié, and Emma George Weber
8 Offshore wind licensing in Norway 126
Eirik Finserås and Sigrid Eskeland Schütz
9 Offshore wind licensing in Spain 148
Íñigo del Guayo and Álvaro Cuesta Adán
10 Offshore wind licensing in the United Kingdom 170
John Paterson
11 Offshore wind development in Africa: An analysis of regional and national legal regimes 189
Eddy Wifa and Patrick Achor
12 Offshore wind licensing in the United States of America 209
Alexander Severance
13 The regulatory framework for offshore wind electricity generation in Argentina 234
Ezequiel Cassagne
14 Offshore wind licensing in Colombia: A pioneer in Latin America and the Caribbean 253
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta
15 Building on strong foundations? An examination of Australia’s new offshore wind energy regulation 273
Jack Edward Brown
16 Research on the offshore wind licensing in China 296
Haifeng Deng
17 Offshore wind licensing in Japan and South Korea 314
Suchanun Hunsa-Udom
18 Offshore wind power licensing evolution in Taiwan: Perhaps the most ambitious but the weakest rule of
law in the world 334
Anton Ming-Zhi GAO
19 Offshore wind licensing trends and observations 359
Tina Soliman Hunter and Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui
PART I BACKGROUND TO OFFSHORE WIND LICENSING
1 Geographical, technological, and legal perspectives of offshore wind energy 2
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Tina Soliman Hunter
2 Offshore wind technology in a nutshell 16
Finn Gunnar Nielsen
3 Offshore wind resources 28
Charlotte Bay Hasager and Joachim Reuder
4 Environmental considerations in offshore wind licensing 40
Anne Marie O’Hagan
5 Maritime spatial planning and offshore wind energy 59
Anne Marie O’Hagan
PART II NATIONAL OFFSHORE WIND LICENSING APPROACHES
6 Offshore wind licensing in Denmark 83
Birgitte Egelund Olsen and Bent Ole Gram Mortensen
7 Offshore wind licensing in France 105
Natasha Peter, Alice Bouillié, and Emma George Weber
8 Offshore wind licensing in Norway 126
Eirik Finserås and Sigrid Eskeland Schütz
9 Offshore wind licensing in Spain 148
Íñigo del Guayo and Álvaro Cuesta Adán
10 Offshore wind licensing in the United Kingdom 170
John Paterson
11 Offshore wind development in Africa: An analysis of regional and national legal regimes 189
Eddy Wifa and Patrick Achor
12 Offshore wind licensing in the United States of America 209
Alexander Severance
13 The regulatory framework for offshore wind electricity generation in Argentina 234
Ezequiel Cassagne
14 Offshore wind licensing in Colombia: A pioneer in Latin America and the Caribbean 253
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta
15 Building on strong foundations? An examination of Australia’s new offshore wind energy regulation 273
Jack Edward Brown
16 Research on the offshore wind licensing in China 296
Haifeng Deng
17 Offshore wind licensing in Japan and South Korea 314
Suchanun Hunsa-Udom
18 Offshore wind power licensing evolution in Taiwan: Perhaps the most ambitious but the weakest rule of
law in the world 334
Anton Ming-Zhi GAO
19 Offshore wind licensing trends and observations 359
Tina Soliman Hunter and Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui
