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Energy Resources - Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy - Plan Options - 2020

The Sectoral Marine Plan aims to identify the most sustainable plan options for the future development of commercial-scale offshore wind energy in Scotland, including deep water wind technologies and covers both Scottish inshore and offshore waters (extending out to the Exclusive Economic Zone limit).


The Sectoral Marine seeks to contribute to the achievement of Scottish and UK energy and climate change policy objectives and targets, through the provision of a spatial strategy to inform the seabed leasing process for commercial offshore wind energy in Scottish waters, which:


- Minimises the potential adverse effects on other marine users, economic

sectors and the environment resulting from further commercial-scale

offshore wind development; and


- Maximises opportunities for economic development, investment and employment in Scotland, by identifying new opportunities for commercial scale

offshore wind development, including deeper water wind technologies.


The Plan Options provide the spatial footprint for this Sectoral Marine Plan.

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Date ()
2021-05-22
Identifier

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12263

 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

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Edinburgh

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EH6 6QQ

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United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

-

Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
Maintenance and update frequency
Not Planned
Keywords
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
SeaDataNet Parameter Disciplines
  • Administration and dimensions

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
  • Energy resources

Use constraints

The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from the Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Access constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints

no limitations to public access

Distance
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Metadata language
eng (en)
Topic category
  • Economy
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Geographic identifier

There is no appropriate value

Date ()
2010-01-01

Begin date
2017-11-01
End date
2019-12-18
Reference system identifier

OGP

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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format
OnLine resource
View Plan Options layer on NMPi (

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

)
OnLine resource
energy_resources_smp_wind_plan_options (

OGC:WFS

)

Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy - Plan Options - 2020

OnLine resource
energy_resources_smp_wind_plan_options (

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities

)

Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind Energy - Plan Options - 2020

OnLine resource
Download plan options as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum (

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

)
Scope
dataset
Statement

The draft plan Options ("DPO") were derived through an iterative analysis of opportunity and constraint in Scottish Waters. A constraint model is produced by combining multiple spatial features together in a weighted model to identify higher and lower levels of constraint on the development of offshore wind. Areas of Search features are then drawn into the model.


A public consultation on this constraint model and the Areas of Search was then carried out and feedback was addressed and used to update and iterate on the model. The process is repeated until a selection of Areas of Search are identified to take forward in the planning process. At this point the Areas of Search become draft Plan Options and are subject to Sustainability Appraisal. 15 options were taken forward.


The plans are created in WGS84.

Metadata

File identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12263
Metadata language
eng (en)
Resource Type
dataset
Date stamp
2024-02-15
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.2

 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


+44 (0)300 244 4000
 
 

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