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1、DRAFTPLANFOROFFSHOREWINDENERGYINSCOTTISHTERRITORIALWATERS–SENSITIVITYASSESSMENTOFSPATIALMODELLINGIMDavies,CAiresMarch201129DraftPlanforOffshoreWindEnergyinScottishTerritorialWaters–sensitivityassessmentofspatialmodellingIanMDavies,CatarinaAiresMarineScotlandScience,Marine
2、Laboratory,375VictoriaRoad,Aberdeen,AB118DBExecutiveSummaryInMay2010,theScottishGovernmentpublishedaDraftPlanforOffshoreWindEnergyinScottishTerritorialWaters.TheDraftPlansetoutScottishMinisters’proposalsforthedevelopmentofoffshorewindenergyinScottishTerritorialWatersinthe
3、short,mediumandlongterm.TheDraftPlanhadinitiallybeeninformedbyStrategicEnvironmentalAssessment,whichallowedenvironmentalconsiderationstobe‘frontloaded’intheplan-makingprocess.TofurtherformulateTheDraftPlan,aseriesofoptionswereidentified,whereitinitiallyappearedthatfeasibi
4、lityforoffshorewindenergycouldbeexploredfurther.Firstly,the10areaswithCrownEstate‘exclusivityagreements’wereviewedasashorttermoption.Secondly,mappingsystemswereusedtoconsiderwheredevelopmentcouldbetechnicallyfeasibleoverthemediumtolongterm.Severalconsiderationswereconside
5、redrelevantatthisstage–WindResource;WaterDepth;Ports,andGrid.Thirdly,havingidentifiedtheoverallscopeoftheDraftPlanasawhole,furtheranalysiswasundertakentoidentifysuitableareasfordevelopmentinthemediumtolongterm.ThisinformationwasusedbytheconsultantscommissionedbyScottishGo
6、vernmenttodeveloptheDraftPlanandtheassociatedStrategicEnvironmentalAssessmenttomapzonesofbroadenvironmentalsensitivityandtechnicalissueswithintheCrownEstatesMarineResourceSystem(MaRS).TheCrownEstatehadoperatedtheMaRSsoftware,inresponsetoinstructionsfromtheconsultants.MaRS
7、usedasystemofscoringandweightinginformationtoproducegraduatedmapsoftheleasttogreatesttechnicalandsubsequentlyenvironmental,sensitivity-mostnotablyinrelationtoshippingandcommercialfishingsectors.TheMaRSsystemisapowerfultoolforthehandlingandintegrationofawiderangeofspatiald
8、atareferringtoenvironmentalandtechnicalfactorsthatcaninfluencethedevelopmentofoffshorewindenergy