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Europe’s offshore wind ambitions come with a set of well-known but persistent challenges:
To support the growth of offshore wind in Europe’s seas, more integrated approaches that bring together the information used today are needed.
This includes combining information about local and cross-border impacts, environmental and socio-economic factors, and the full life cycle of wind farms, from planning to decommissioning.
With the clean energy transition moving fast and ambitious climate and energy targets being set by the European institutions (including via the EU Green Deal, REPowerEU plans and the Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy), offshore wind is key.
SUSTAINOW is part of that drive: It strengthens and expands existing assessment tools (like Environmental Impact Assessments, Life Cycle Assessments, and Social Impact Assessments) to better support decision-making around the sustainable planning of offshore wind farms.
The North Sea serves as the primary development basin for these prototypes, which will be built to be purposefully transferable and applicable across Europe’s other sea basins.
The project will test and demonstrate these tools with the North Sea as key pilot area.
Transferability of the tools will be explored for the North-East Atlantic, Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea.
The project will test and demonstrate these tools with the North Sea as key pilot area.
Transferability of the tools will be explored for the North-East Atlantic, Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea.
The project is being carried out by a multidisciplinary consortium of 11 partners from 8 countries, including academic institutions, industry and innovation leaders, and impact assessment specialists.
