Energy resources - Areas of Search refined from offshore wind scoping study 2018

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 14 June 2018
• Topic: Towns and cities
• Licence: Open Government Licence ; View licence information

Summary

Areas of search (AoS) have been created using a multi-criteria analysis generated constraint map that shows a range of suitability for offshore wind energy locations. This constraint map is the product of overlaying and weighting 20 relevant layers in a GIS. From the least constrained/most suitable areas some broad zones are drawn. These broad areas are then refined into the AoS by investigating the geographic proximity to important offshore activities and issues. The activities considered to refine the footprint of the broad areas were: fishing, shipping, marine nature protected areas and oil and gas installations. These AoS will serve as guidance to developers and planners as to the most suitable sites for further offshore wind developments in Scottish waters. These sites provide a zone where developments will enjoy minimised obstacles to consenting and licensing whilst still benefitting from adequate resource and appropriate environmental conditions. These sites are recommended by Marine Scotland as places where the consenting and licensing process will be streamlined, expedient and efficient as the likely interactions to be encountered by developers have already been considered. Marine Scotland does not oblige developers to occupy these locations but to consider them as the most appropriate sites.

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Data links

Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
energy_resources_offshore_wind_areas_of_search	WMS	14 June 2018	Not available
energy_resources_offshore_wind_areas_of_search	N/A	14 June 2018	Not available
View layer on Marine Scotland Maps	N/A	14 June 2018	Not available
Download as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum	N/A	14 June 2018	Not available

Additional information

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2018-06-22
• Access contraints: no limitations to public access
• Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12106
• Extent: Latitude: 63.88707° to 54.43328°
• Extent: Longitude: -14.89295° to 2.605066°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2018-06-13 (publication)
• Frequency of update: unknown
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) (pointOfContact, custodian, distributor); Marine Scotland (originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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Contains information from Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.; Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/)