Offshore Wind Licensing

Edited by Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway and Tina Soliman Hunter, Professor of Energy and Resources Law, and Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Innovation and Transformation (CENRIT), Macquarie University, Australia

Contents:

PART I BACKGROUND TO OFFSHORE WIND LICENSING
1 Geographical, technological, and legal perspectives of offshore wind energy 2
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Tina Soliman Hunter
2 Offshore wind technology in a nutshell 16
Finn Gunnar Nielsen
3 Offshore wind resources 28
Charlotte Bay Hasager and Joachim Reuder
4 Environmental considerations in offshore wind licensing 40
Anne Marie O’Hagan
5 Maritime spatial planning and offshore wind energy 59
Anne Marie O’Hagan

PART II NATIONAL OFFSHORE WIND LICENSING APPROACHES
6 Offshore wind licensing in Denmark 83
Birgitte Egelund Olsen and Bent Ole Gram Mortensen
7 Offshore wind licensing in France 105
Natasha Peter, Alice Bouillié, and Emma George Weber
8 Offshore wind licensing in Norway 126
Eirik Finserås and Sigrid Eskeland Schütz
9 Offshore wind licensing in Spain 148
Íñigo del Guayo and Álvaro Cuesta Adán
10 Offshore wind licensing in the United Kingdom 170
John Paterson
11 Offshore wind development in Africa: An analysis of regional and national legal regimes 189
Eddy Wifa and Patrick Achor
12 Offshore wind licensing in the United States of America 209
Alexander Severance
13 The regulatory framework for offshore wind electricity generation in Argentina 234
Ezequiel Cassagne
14 Offshore wind licensing in Colombia: A pioneer in Latin America and the Caribbean 253
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta
15 Building on strong foundations? An examination of Australia’s new offshore wind energy regulation 273
Jack Edward Brown
16 Research on the offshore wind licensing in China 296
Haifeng Deng
17 Offshore wind licensing in Japan and South Korea 314
Suchanun Hunsa-Udom
18 Offshore wind power licensing evolution in Taiwan: Perhaps the most ambitious but the weakest rule of
law in the world 334
Anton Ming-Zhi GAO
19 Offshore wind licensing trends and observations 359
Tina Soliman Hunter and Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui