Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022 edition - Flipbook - Page 55
Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022
III. Public law and Regulatory Permits
A. Spatial planning at sea
In 1995 a spatial planning committee for the
OWFs led by the DEA was established. The
report “Future Offshore Wind Power Sites –
2025” from 2007 (updated in 2011)
identified areas where 23 OWFs, each of 44
km2 with a total capacity of approx. 4200
MW, could be built. The last planning
activity was carried out in 2012 in relation to
nearshore wind sites and resulted in the
selection of 15 suitable areas. A large-scale
screening of waters was finalised in May
2020, which identified locations for up to 10
GW of offshore wind capacity in Danish
waters.
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The location of the third OWF has not yet
been announced.
B. Regulatory permits required for the
construction and operation of the
offshore wind farm and the onshore
grid connection
Three licences under the Danish Renewable
Energy Act are required to establish and
operate an OWF in Danish waters, namely:
1.a licence to carry out preliminary
investigations;
2.a licence for construction of the OWTGs;
and
3.a licence for the utilisation of energy.
The Thor OWF will be located in the North
Sea west of Nissum Fjord at a distance of 20
km from the shore near the village of
Thorsminde. The area, which is covered by
the preliminary investigations conducted,
covers 440 km2.
The second OWF mentioned in the Energy
Agreement from 2018 will be located north
of Zealand in Kattegat, in Hesselø Bay, at a
distance of 30 km from Zealand and around
20 km from the small island Hesselø, and
will be established in connection with the
energy island at Bornholm. Originally, the
OWF was supposed to be operational by
2030, but the project has been put on hold
since the preliminary site investigations
revealed soft clay formations below the
seabed.
The establishment of an OWF also requires
the following EAs: a Strategic Environmental
Assessment (SEA) of the plans; an EIA of the
specific project onshore; an EIA of the
specific project offshore and up to the first
landfall in the beach zone; and assessments