Development of wind farm areas in Europe

Figure Created 02 Jun 2015 Published 29 Jun 2015 Last modified 29 Jun 2015

Topics: Marine , Energy ,

The map provides an overview of wind farm areas in all stages of development in Europe. The pie chart shows the different levels of development %.

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Last upload:

26 May 2015

Temporal coverage:

2013

Tags:

marine , offshore wind energy

Geographic coverage:

Baltic Sea , Celtic Sea , English Channel (United Kingdom) , Kattegat , North Sea , Norwegian Sea

Methodology:

GDB; column names: 'Shape_Leng'´, Shape_Area', 'WindFarm_1' 'area_skm', which columns to join; column 'WindfarmSt' was reclassified: Active or partially active describes wind farms which are ‘generating power’ or ‘partial generation/under construction’; Development includes those which are considered to ‘have authorised consent’ or be ‘under construction’; and Early development includes those which were described as ‘concept, early planning’, ‘consent application submitted’ and ‘development zone’, Other includes ‘cancelled’, ‘decommissioned’, ‘dormant’ and ‘failed proposal’; column 'WindFarm_1' to use for the legend classification, changes: area calculated and expressed in square kilometers

Units:

km²

Rights:

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Owners:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Processors:

4C Offshore

Ecologic Institute

European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ICM)

Figure type:

Map