BWO welcomes the first successes of the OCEaN in Germany

4 November 2021

“We are pleased that the cooperation with transmission system operators and environmental and climate protection organizations in the OCEaN is now also bearing the first fruits in Germany. The joint paper is a clear signal in the direction of politics: a nature-friendly expansion of offshore wind energy is necessary and possible. It is important that climate protection and nature protection are no longer played off against each other, but are meaningfully combined and adequately prioritized. "

(Stefan Thimm, Managing Director of the Federal Association of Wind Farm Operators Offshore eV)

 

Hintergrund:

The German working group of the Offshore Coalition for Energy and Nature (OCEaN) published “Six requirements for the environmentally friendly expansion of offshore wind energy” this week. The requirements include:

  1. Prioritize climate and nature protection when allocating space and create compensation.
  2. Start a dialogue on co-use with all stakeholder groups in order to defuse land conflicts.
  3. Expand and consistently use transparent and effective European cooperation.
  4. Optimizing the regulatory framework in order to achieve climate neutrality goals and enable innovations.
  5. Provide and use publicly accessible data as a starting point for planning.
  6. Use specific measures to accelerate and improve processes.

You can find the full paper here, more information about the OCEaN at: https://offshore-coalition.eu/.

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