Workshop on Environmental Monitoring and Mitigation around Deployed Marine Energy Devices

This workshop, hosted by Ocean Energy Systems (OES)-Environmental and Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) Ocean Energy, aimed to identify the key components of effective and efficient programs for environmental monitoring around tidal and wave devices, explore whether there are elements that could be standardized among projects worldwide, and discuss possible funding mechanisms to carry out needed research into techniques and outcomes to facilitate and reduce monitoring requirements and de-risk consenting and licensing processes as the industry scales up.

The workshop included presentations from OES-Environmental and ORJIP on examples of environmental monitoring and mitigation around tidal and wave projects around the world: Sustainable Marine Energy (Canada) Ltd.’s PLAT-I Grand Passage tidal deployment in Canada, CalWave’s xWave scaled prototype deployment in the US, Voith Hydro’s HyTide tidal deployment at European Marine Energy Center (EMEC) in Scotland, SIMEC Atlantis’ MeyGen tidal deployment in Scotland, and Anglesey Marine Energy’s Morlais tidal energy project in Wales. Following those examples, the participants engaged in a discussion around best practices for monitoring and data collection as well as information needs and sharing, and on research to support consenting and funding mechanisms.

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