OUR GREAT MINDS

    by Tina Olivero

    The Crown Estate and Offshore Wind Energy in the UK

    The UK is leading the world in installed offshore wind capacity, and The Crown Estate has utilised the UK’s advantageous geographical position to harness offshore wind power. This has included three leasing rounds of the seabed for offshore wind farm development which in total, including existing and new offshore wind and marine renewable energy programmes, could provide around a third of the UK’s electricity requirements.

    The Crown Estate manages a multi-billion pound property and land portfolio across the UK. It has extensive marine assets throughout the country, including 55 per cent of the foreshore, approximately half of the estuary beds and tidal rivers, and owns virtually the entire seabed out to 12 nautical miles, including the rights to explore and utilise the natural resources of the UK continental shelf (excluding oil, gas and coal).

    By 2020 around 25 per cent of the UK’s electricity resources are expected to come from marine renewable energy resources on The Crown Estate’s seabed, and a further 25-50 per cent of the UK’s electricity supply could rely on storing CO2 within The Crown Estate’s seabed. As a consequence, over half a million jobs could be created in the renewable energy industry over the next two decades.

    In 2000, The Crown Estate ran Round 1 of offshore wind farm licensing and Round 2 followed in 2003. Rounds 1 and 2 have the potential to deliver around 8GW of offshore wind energy into the UK national grid. Currently there is 1GW of installed and operating capacity.

    In January this year, the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, joined The Crown Estate to announce the Round 3 development partners. Round 3 increases the scale of offshore wind and allows developers to plan for the longer term requirements of offshore wind power, including making the necessary commitments to the supply chain.

    In addition to these projects, The Crown Estate completed a programme of offshore wind farm licensing within Scottish territorial waters. Separate from Rounds 1, 2 and 3, this programme aims to deliver an additional 6.5GW of offshore wind energy with a potential market investment of £20 billion.

    Offshore Wind – Round 3 Zones

    Offshore Wind - Round 3 Zones

    For more information on wind and tidal energy opportunities please contact The Crown Estate.

    Source: http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk

     

    Tina Olivero

    30 years ago, Tina Olivero looked into the future and saw an opportunity to make a difference for her province and people. That difference came in the form of the oil and gas sector. Six years before there was even a drop of oil brought to the shores of Newfoundland, she founded The Oil and Gas Magazine (THE OGM) from a back room in her home on Signal Hill Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A single mother, no financing, no previous journalism or oil and gas experience, she forged ahead, with a creative vision and one heck of a heaping dose of sheer determination. With her pioneering spirit, Ms. Olivero developed a magazine that would educate, inspire, motivate and entertain oil and gas readers around the world — She prides herself in marketing and promoting our province and resources in unprecedented ways. The OGM is a magazine that focuses on our projects, our people, our opportunities and ultimately becomes the bridge to new energy outcomes and a sustainable new energy world. Now diversifying into the communications realms, a natural progression from the Magazine, The OGM now offers an entirely new division - Oil & Gas Media. Today, The Oil and Gas Magazine is a global phenomenon that operates not only in Newfoundland, but also in Calgary and is read by oil and gas enthusiasts in Norway, Aberdeen, across the US and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. Believing that Energy is everyone’s business, Ms. Olivero has combined energy + culture to embrace the worlds commitment to a balance of work and home life as well as fostering a foundation for health and well being. In this era of growth and development business and lifestyle are an eloquent mix, there is no beginning or end. Partnering with over 90 oil and gas exhibitions and conferences around the world, Ms. Olivero's role as a Global Visionary is to embrace communication in a way that fosters oil and gas business and industry growth in new and creative ways.

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