Evaluate the Deposits, Potentials and Impacts of Marine Renewable Energies

Your need
The offshore renewable energy industry (fixed or floating wind turbines, hydrokinetic turbines, ocean thermal energy conversion systems, wave energy converters, etc.) is in its early stages and could be a hotbed of innovation in the coming years.

• To secure investments and reduce project costs, detailed knowledge of the machine installation area must be provided to the relevant stakeholders as early as possible in the project definition. This knowledge covers exploitable deposits and the identification of existing issues (uses, technical constraints and environmental sensitivities of the environment). These elements will be used to establish the initial state of the site and to fuel a possible public debate.

Project developers also need this information to size the project, define environmental monitoring and appropriate "avoid, reduce and compensate" measures.

• On the other hand, project developers must monitor impacts on the environment and verify the effectiveness of reduction and compensation measures. These studies must be subject to specific expertise aimed at guaranteeing the quality of this work.

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