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- Report:
Anderson et al.
The purpose of this project is to develop tools that examine the environmental effects of offshore wind development, in order to streamline and facilitate the siting and permitting of wind farms in the U.S. During FY 2010, the conceptual framework for the environmental risk evaluation system (ERES) and the knowledge management system (Zephyrus) to house environmental effects data was developed…
- Conference Paper:
Copping et al.
The production of electricity from the moving waters of the ocean has the potential to be a viable addition to the portfolio of renewable energy sources worldwide. The marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) industry faces many hurdles, including technology development, challenges of offshore deployments, and financing; however, the barrier most commonly identified by industry, regulators, and…
- Conference Paper:
Harker-Klimes et al.
This paper discusses the stages involved in understanding environmental impacts associated with marine energy generation devices, and describes an approach for assessing these impacts. It focusses on establishing monitoring tools and techniques for the pathways between stressors and receptors that can be transferred between locations. This highlights the difficulties in monitoring certain…
- Conference Paper:
Copping et al.
The marine renewable energy (MRE) industry is no longer brand new, but is not yet established commercially. Researchers have been examining potential environmental risks of MRE development for about a decade now, but there are still limited data from monitoring around wave and in-stream tidal devices to definitively determine what interactions between devices and marine animals/habitats can be…
- Report:
Garavelli et al.
The most important concern for permitting tidal and river turbines is the collision risk of marine animals with the turbine blades. Our understanding of the risk to individual fish from colliding with turbine blades is poor; if these collisions were to occur, it is unknown whether fish will sustain recoverable injuries or be killed. Equally unknown is the impact these collisions might have on…
- Conference Paper:
Freeman et al.
The relatively new marine renewable energy (MRE) industry has faced regulatory challenges due to the uncertainty surrounding potential environmental impacts that have often stalled its advancement. While the MRE industry continues to move forward, barriers and challenges remain for environmental permitting (consenting), including a lack of awareness of existing knowledge on environmental…
- Book Chapter:
Copping et al.
Adaptive management (AM) is a systematic process intended to improve policies and practices and reduce scientific uncertainty by learning from the outcome of management decisions. Although many nations are considering the use of AM for wind energy, its application in practice and in policy has been limited. Recent applications of AM have revealed fundamental differences in the definition of AM…
- Video:
Grear et al.
Commercial interest in developing floating wind energy in the deep waters of the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf has raised questions about whales and other large cetaceans potentially encountering the mooring lines and electrical cables from a floating offshore wind farm. The BOEM Pacific Region asked the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to create an animated simulation of a humpback…
- Report:
Copping et al.
The deployment and operation of a floating tidal technology in the United States require assessing environmental conditions and satisfying all environmental permitting requirements. Two locations in the United States are chosen to evaluate the potential for deployment of the Orbital Marine Power Ltd. floating technology: San Juan Islands (Washington) and Western Passage (Maine). This report…
- Journal Article:
Whiting et al.
The placement and operation of marine energy deployments in the ocean have the potential to change flow patterns, decrease wave heights, and/or remove energy from the oceanographic system. Changes in oceanographic systems resulting from harvesting marine energy, particularly tidal and wave energy, may be of concern. These changes include alterations in nearfield and farfield physical processes…
- Presentation:
Polagye et al.
Integrated instrumentation packages designed for operation at marine renewable energy sites have the potential to reduce the risk uncertainty around high priority interactions between stressors and receptors. Such packages can leverage the competitive strengths of individual instruments and reduce risk in a rapid, cost-effective manner. One emerging example of environmental infrastructure to…
- Report:
Copping et al.
Data transferability is the practice of using existing, relevant data or research to fulfill or reduce the permitting requirements of a new project. The limitations and requirements for data transferability have been described and defined iteratively throughout the data transferability process developed by…
- Journal Article:
Yang et al.
Understanding the response of river flow and estuarine hydrodynamics to climate change, land-use/land-cover change (LULC), and sea-level rise is essential to managing water resources and stress on living organisms under these changing conditions. This paper presents a modeling study using a watershed hydrology model and an estuarine hydrodynamic model, in a one-way coupling, to investigate the…
- Journal Article:
Breithaupt et al.
This study examines maritime routes between ports along the Atlantic coast of the US, utilising Automated Identification System (AIS) data for the years 2010 through 2012. The delineation of vessel routes conducted in this study was motivated by development planned for offshore Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) along the Atlantic coast of the US and the need to evaluate the effect of these development…
- Workshop Article:
Copping et al.
The Pacific Region Marine Renewables Environmental Regulatory Workshop was held in conjunction with the 11th Annual Ocean Renewable Energy Conference in Portland, Oregon, on September 21, 2016 in response to frustrations and concerns expressed by members of the marine renewable energy (MRE) industry about permitting processes for MRE development being long, drawn out, challenging, and…
- Journal Article:
Copping et al.
Marine renewable energy (MRE) is under development in many coastal nations, adding to the portfolio of low carbon energy sources that power national electricity grids as well as off-grid uses in isolated areas and at sea. Progress in establishing the MRE industry, largely wave and tidal energy, has been slowed in part due to uncertainty about environmental risks of these devices, including…
- Journal Article:
Yang et al.
Understanding and providing proactive information on the potential for tidal energy projects to cause changes to the physical system and to key water quality constituents in tidal waters is a necessary and cost-effective means to avoid costly regulatory involvement and late stage surprises in the permitting process. This paper presents a modeling study for evaluating the tidal energy…
- Report:
Copping et al.
OES-Environmental has developed Good Management Practices for the collection of social and economic data in order to provide greater standardization in baseline and development/operational data requested to support permitting/consenting MRE projects and to increase understanding of the social and economic benefits and effects of MRE…
- Presentation:
Freeman et al.
With only a few wave and tidal devices in the water and no long-term post-installation datasets available, there continue to be uncertainties around risks to marine animals and habitats from the deployment and operation of marine renewable energy (MRE) systems. Based on these uncertainties and lack of familiarity with MRE devices, regulators and stakeholders continue to perceive a wide array…
- Presentation:
Copping et al.
Generation of low carbon energy is needed to mitigate climate change and to support the sustainable use of the oceans. Marine renewable energy (MRE)—largely the generation of power from waves and tides—can assist with this need. However, MRE technologies are new and their potential environmental effects on marine organisms, habitats, and ecosystem processes are shrouded in uncertainty, causing…
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