[HTML][HTML] Towards understanding environmental and cumulative impacts of floating wind farms: Lessons learned from the fixed-bottom offshore wind farms

F Rezaei, P Contestabile, D Vicinanza… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renewable energy sectors have been rapidly growing over the last three decades due to
the environmental concerns regarding fossil fuels and increasing demand of energy by …

Challenges of evidence-informed offshore decommissioning: an environmental perspective

AJ Lemasson, PJ Somerfield, M Schratzberger… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Many offshore artificial structures are at or nearing their ends of life, and society faces the
considerable challenge that is decommissioning. Current scientific evidence of the …

An integrated conceptual model to characterize the effects of offshore wind farms on ecosystem services

Y Baulaz, M Mouchet, N Niquil, FBR Lasram - Ecosystem Services, 2023 - Elsevier
Offshore wind farm development has become a key measure of energy transition in recent
years. Coastal territories are particularly favorable to the development of offshore wind farms …

Prospective material flow analysis of the end-of-life decommissioning: Case study of a North Sea offshore wind farm

C Demuytere, I Vanderveken, G Thomassen… - Resources …, 2024 - Elsevier
Early offshore wind farms approach their decommissioning phase, yet a lack of precedents,
potential legal bottlenecks, inadequate treatments and a lack of applicable circularity …

[HTML][HTML] Making eco-sustainable floating offshore wind farms: Siting, mitigations, and compensations

R Danovaro, S Bianchelli, P Brambilla, G Brussa… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Floating Offshore Wind Farms (FOWFs) are the most promising renewable energy
resource. Floating turbines are installed at progressively increasing water depths, interacting …

A synthesis review of nature positive approaches and coexistence in the offshore wind industry

JCF Pardo, M Aune, C Harman… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Offshore wind is one of the major fast-growing renewable energy industries, and sustainable
implementation of offshore wind farms (OWF) is desired. Nature positive approaches have …

A novel fuzzy multi-factor navigational risk assessment method for ship route optimization in costal offshore wind farm waters

R Zhen, P Lv, Z Shi, G Chen - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2023 - Elsevier
The navigational risk assessment in the waters of offshore wind farms (OWFs) is difficult to
be quantified due to multiple factors, to solve this problem, this paper proposes a method of …

[HTML][HTML] A Review of the Sustainable Siting of Offshore Wind Farms

P Gkeka-Serpetsidaki, G Skiniti, S Tournaki, T Tsoutsos - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
The continued technical and economic development of offshore wind farms needs to match
their sustainable siting transparently and fairly. Aiming to assess existing methodologies …

An innovative methodology for the determination of wind farms installation location characteristics using GIS and Delaunay Triangulation

K Xenitidis, K Ioannou, G Tsantopoulos - Energy for Sustainable …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renewable energy development and more specifically Wind Farm (WF) installation has
been increased during the last years by most countries. A discipline that has been studied …

[HTML][HTML] Offshore energy structures in the North Sea: Past, present and future

MCI Martins, MID Carter, S Rouse, DJF Russell - Marine Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Offshore man-made structures (MMS) such as oil and gas (O&G) platforms, pipelines and
wind energy developments are present in shelf seas worldwide and can potentially …