Blue energy and marine spatial planning in Southern Europe

García, Pedro López; Ruiz, Juan Adolfo Chica; Sanabria, Javier García

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111421

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“…Por ende, todo esto es indicativo de la necesidad de acometer un proceso de PEM, pero siendo además necesario que se produzca en un marco de cooperación y coordinación con las Administraciones que acometen la planificación y gestión de las áreas litorales. Es decir, es necesario potenciar la cooperación efectiva entre Estado/PEM -CCAA/GIAL (Quero et al, 2020). Y es que carece de sentido la elaboración de un plan marino como resultado de un proceso de PEM sin contemplar la zona costera, donde se concentran gran parte de las actividades y las áreas im-portantes desde el punto de vista ecológico.…”

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Basis for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). An interpretation for the Gulf of Cadiz

Fernández-Salvador¹,

Sanabria²,

Onetti³

2021

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Numerous human activities take place in the marine area of the Gulf of Cádiz, making it necessary to organize space through their spatial and temporal distribution. With the aim of combining the long-term conservation of marine biodiversity and the development of an economic activity that makes it possible to maintain over time the capacity of the marine environment to provide ecosystem services. Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is being an effective process regarding the spatial and temporal distribution of human activities in the marine space to the achievement of ecological, economical and social objectives. MSP is usually schematized in 10 phases, in which among others it is found 5th phase: Defining and analyzing existing conditions. The aim of this document is the development of this phase in the Gulf of Cadiz, pretending to provide some of the needed basis to cope effectively with this process. Furthemore, in order to transfer the analyzes to the territory, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been used, showing how useful these are to address PEM processes. It is worth highlighting, among the results, the need to develop the MSP within a framework of cooperation and coordination between the Administrations that undertake the planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), that is, MSP and ICZM. In the Gulf of Cadiz, the main conflictive areas have been detected near to the coast and in semi-closed environments, such as bays and estuaries.

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Basis for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). An interpretation for the Gulf of Cadiz

Fernández-Salvador¹,

Sanabria²,

Onetti³

2021

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“…These areas are often intensively exploited for the construction of coastal infrastructures or for activities related to exploitation of marine resources. Recent works in literature are also related to exploitation of renewable resources 1 or to installation of underwater data centers 2 near urban areas. All these activities involve, drilling, sampling, and geognostic investigation of the sea-bottom.…”

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Modeling of an underwater drilling platform for very near shore applications

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Cocci

Frillici

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M:

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The development of the blue economy involves the construction of marine infrastructures (harbors, marine wind farms, underwater data centers, etc.). All these activities require a geological investigation of the sea bottom. For nearshore and very near-shore applications the most common solution is represented by the adoption of fixed jack-up platforms; however, transportation and deployment of this kind of infrastructure are quite expensive and time-consuming. Also, the adoption of floating drilling technologies that are currently used for offshore applications is often difficult or impossible in shallow waters. In this work, an underwater drilling platform designed for near-shore applications is investigated. The proposed system is designed and optimized for rapid deployment in different operational conditions. This work is focused on the description of this innovative solution including simulation models that have been developed for this activity. Also, simulation models represent an original contribution because they are able to simulate complex interactions of the drilling pod with the surrounding water, with the support ship and with the excavated sea bottom.

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“…Policy has a major role to help this transition and Falcone et al [12] estimated that policy procurement, taxes on traditional fuels and cooperation are the key elements to empower the niche mechanisms and especially the expectations. In this context, the exploitation of marine renewable energies (such as tides, waves, and offshore wind) provides an interesting potential, and yet wave energy is rarely considered [13] and often neglected [10,11,14]. Wave energy has a significant potential worldwide [15] for both decentralised [16] and centralised [17] approaches [18].…”

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Breaking-Down and Parameterising Wave Energy Converter Costs Using the CapEx and Similitude Methods

Henriksen¹,

Etemad‐Shahidi

Tomlinson

2021

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Wave energy converters (WECs) can play a significant role in the transition towards a more renewable-based energy mix as stable and unlimited energy resources. Financial analysis of these projects requires WECs cost and WEC capital expenditure (CapEx) information. However, (i) cost information is often limited due to confidentiality and (ii) the wave energy field lacks flexible methods for cost breakdown and parameterisation, whereas they are needed for rapid and optimised WEC configuration and worldwide site pairing. This study takes advantage of the information provided by Wavepiston to compare different costing methods. The work assesses the Froude-Law-similarities-based “Similitude method” for cost-scaling and introduces the more flexible and generic “CapEx method” divided into three steps: (1) distinguishing WEC’s elements from the wave energy farm (WEF)’s; (2) defining the parameters characterising the WECs, WEFs, and site locations; and (3) estimating elements that affect WEC and WEF elements’ cost and translate them into factors using the parameters defined in step (2). After validation from Wavepiston manual estimations, the CapEx method showed that the factors could represent up to 30% of the cost. The Similitude method provided slight cost-overestimations compared to the CapEx method for low WEC up-scaling, increasing exponentially with the scaling.

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Blue energy and marine spatial planning in Southern Europe

Cited by 20 publications

References 60 publications

Basis for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). An interpretation for the Gulf of Cadiz

Basis for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). An interpretation for the Gulf of Cadiz

Modeling of an underwater drilling platform for very near shore applications

Breaking-Down and Parameterising Wave Energy Converter Costs Using the CapEx and Similitude Methods

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