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Offshore Wind Worldwide 2023
The Offshore Wind Environmental
Improvement Package aims to address
the impacts of offshore wind infrastructure in the marine environment while
speeding up the consenting process
and protect the environment. Measures
include:
• delivery of Offshore Wind Environmental Standards (previously called
nature-based design standards in the
British Energy Security Strategy);
• development of regulations and
guidance to streamline the Habitats
Regulations Assessment and Marine
Conservation Zone assessment process for offshore wind projects;
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(h) Major recent and future
offshore wind auctions
(i)
The Crown Estate: Round 4
In September 2019, The Crown
Estate launched the UK’s first major
offshore wind leasing round in a
decade (known as Round 4). In February 2021, six proposed new offshore wind projects were selected
in the competitive tender process,
opening up the opportunity for just
under 8GW of new offshore wind
energy, anticipated to be enough to
meet the electricity needs of over
seven million homes. 20
• delivery environmental compensatory
measures across one or more offshore wind projects to compensate for
adverse environmental effects on protected sites that cannot be otherwise
avoided, reduced or mitigated;
• implementation of a Marine Recovery
Fund; and
• the introduction of strategic monitoring to improve understanding of the
marine environment and the measures
needed to further protect it.
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