07/12/2020 | Offshore wind

New initiative will safeguard environment and enable growth of offshore wind

07 December 2020 - Offshore Wind Industry Council media release


Commenting on today’s announcement by The Crown Estate that it has launched a new UK-wide partnership with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), the Offshore Wind Evidence and Change Programme, the Co-Chair of the Offshore Wind Industry Council, Danielle Lane, Vattenfall’s UK Country Manager, said:


“This programme will help to ensure that we continue to install vitally-needed new offshore wind capacity in an environmentally sensitive way. Safeguarding our precious marine ecosystem is a key factor in the way we work as responsible developers.


“Minimising any impact of the infrastructure needed to connect our projects to the electricity network is as important to us as it is to local communities which are being regenerated by offshore wind.     


“This ambitious programme brings together industry, government and wildlife organisations to create a new forum which will help us to reach the Prime Minister’s target of 40GW of offshore wind by 2030 while protecting wildlife and working closer with the communities hosting us”.


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Notes


The Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) is a senior Government and industry forum established in 2013 to drive the development of the world-leading offshore wind sector in the UK.


More details on the programme are available via The Crown Estate.


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