Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022 edition - Flipbook - Page 89
Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022
assessments, the introduction of a planning
approval process for centrally pre-surveyed
areas, the specification of the duration for
planning and approval procedures, and the
specification of ambitious implementation
deadlines. 13
Back in December 2021, the Federal
Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
(Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und
Hydrographie – BSH) officially launched the
procedure for updating the “Site
Development Plan” (Flächenentwicklungsplan; see section II.B.3.) for the German EEZ
for the further expansion of offshore wind
energy. In a preliminary draft the Federal
Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
proposes additional sites (Flächen) in the
North Sea with a capacity of 3 GW.14
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II. The Offshore wind promotion
system
A. Regulatory framework
On the federal government level, the
competent authority is the federal ministry
for economic affairs and climate action.15
The main legal instruments setting the
regulatory environment for offshore wind
energy are the Offshore Wind Energy Act
(Windenergie-auf-See-Gesetz), the
Renewable Energies Act (Erneuerbare
Energien Gesetz) and the Energy Industry
Act (Energiewirtschaftsgesetz).
1. Offshore Wind Energy Act
The Offshore Wind Energy Act16 primarily
includes the legal regimes for (i) the
sectoral planning and pre-investigation of
the “sites” for offshore wind energy (see
section II.B), (ii) the tender process for
OWTGs commissioned as of 2021 (see
section II.B), (iii) the construction and
operation permission for OWTGs, GCSs,
and other energy generating facilities (see
section III), and (iv) the tender process for
“other energy generation areas” (see
section VII).
2. Renewable Energies Act
The overall development of renewable
energy of all sources, applicable feed-in
13 (cf. for the core contents of the draft bill: https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/E/Kerninhalte_EEG_WindSeeG.pdf?__
blob=publicationFile&v=4)
14 Habeck:”Zusätzliche Flächen für Windenergie auf See bringen dem Ausbau der Erneuerbaren einen kräftigen Schub”, available at: https://
www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Pressemitteilungen/2021/12/20211220-habeck-zusatzliche-flachen-fur-windenergie-auf-see-bringen-demausbau-der-erneuerbaren-einen-kraftigen-schub.html; the preliminary draft is available at: https://www.bsh.de/DE/THEMEN/Offshore/
Meeresfachplanung/Flaechenentwicklungsplan/_Anlagen/Downloads/FEP_2022/Vorentwurf_FEP.pdf?blob=publicationFile&v=2.
15 The ministry’s information site on offshore wind energy is available at:
https://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/EE/Navigation/DE/Technologien/Windenergie-auf-See/windenergie-auf-see.html.
16 Available at: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/windseeg/.