The Minister of State for Energy eliminated the possibility of approval. Marine Spatial Planning Plans (POEM) and precise regions for distribution wind offshore in Spain before the end of the year during his visit to Galicia this week. “We all work tirelessly,” he said. Sarah Aagesen, but the term the Ministry of Ecological Transition itself considers “seems tight to me.” We will have to wait for the start of the next fiscal year when these will also be released. new processing regulations of parks and Auctions of sites to achieve their goal Deploy 1,000 to 3,000 megawatts (MW) of floating energy by 2030. As part of the offshore wind map and sustainability imperative, other measures will be approved to “implement a coordinated, integrated and cross-border approach that allows optimum use of marine space, reduces conflict and promotes coexistence and synergy”. Actual decree in the Council of Ministers. The previous last step was completed with the post published yesterday. Official State Gazette (BOE) strategic environmental statement of POEMs changes in places of development.
The draft plans divide the development areas of the region. offshore Due to its lesser impacts on the environment and other activities, especially on fisheries, it is between “priority areas” and “high potential areas” where there is more interaction in theory and therefore coexistence is complicated. latest version eliminate double category and all locations They will be “high potential areas”one of the key demands presented during the intensive consultation process.
smaller polygons
Ecological Transition, offshore wind energy produced “the largest number of claims” It surpasses even the ever-controversial extraction of aggregates for coastal protection, due to its “impacts on biodiversity and interactions with other uses and sectors, particularly “aquaculture and coastal fisheries or national defense”. “The project owner – about the ministry itself – explains that wind energy was initially seen as a priority due to the country’s goal of promoting it and its relevance to climate change mitigation and energy sovereignty”.
in Galicia, integrated into the North Atlantic border, separated five implantation polygons this is the offshore wind NOR-1It had an area of 593.7 square kilometers, located 22.3 kilometers in front of Baixo Miño. About 28 kilometers from Ortegal NOR-2, the largest in the country: 2,362 square kilometers. this NOR-3 and NOR-4167.3 and 75.2 square kilometers respectively, doubling the maritime border between A Coruña and Lugo; and NOR-5435.8 square kilometers, in A Mariña. According to the decision, all of these remain in force. cropped “to minimize interference with bottom fishing gear”: trawlers, longlines and gillnets. The same reasons are given by the Ecological Transition to shrink one of the polygons and converge the other two planned on the Asturian coast.
removed areas
As FARO announced last week, final POEMs also don’t even mention some of the places that were originally set. They won’t follow those closest to land Gran Canaria and the Strait of GibraltarThe biggest one Balearic Islands and in front Cabo de GataIn Almería, due to the incompatibility of facilities with trawling, environmental protection and tourism.
POEM’s strategic environmental statement includes specific criteria for “adequate environmental impact assessment” from “perspective”. rapid and comprehensive development offshore wind projects”. There is around thirty It is presented in the state window and half of all power resides in Galicia.
The Ecological Transition suggests that “at a minimum” the study of potentially affected birds from the facility in general and noise emission in particular will be included; characterization of marine habitats of the site; analysis of “cumulative and synergistic effects” of other neighboring wind projects; an acoustic study before, during and after the studies; “impact and landscape integration” study; and report on fishing activities in the area. He states that “priority should be given to the coexistence of the wind farm with the fishing activity present in the area, with particular regard to traditional fishing tools and sustainably managed fishing areas.”
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