Offshore Wind Licensing

Edited by Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway and Tina Soliman Hunter, Professor of Energy and Resources Law, and Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Innovation and Transformation (CENRIT), Macquarie University, Australia

• Contents:PART I BACKGROUND TO OFFSHORE WIND LICENSING1 Geographical, technological, and legal perspectives of offshore wind energy 2Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Tina Soliman Hunter2 Offshore wind technology in a nutshell 16Finn Gunnar Nielsen3 Offshore wind resources 28Charlotte Bay Hasager and Joachim Reuder4 Environmental considerations in offshore wind licensing 40Anne Marie O’Hagan5 Maritime spatial planning and offshore wind energy 59Anne Marie O’HaganPART II NATIONAL OFFSHORE WIND LICENSING APPROACHES6 Offshore wind licensing in Denmark 83Birgitte Egelund Olsen and Bent Ole Gram Mortensen7 Offshore wind licensing in France 105Natasha Peter, Alice Bouillié, and Emma George Weber8 Offshore wind licensing in Norway 126Eirik Finserås and Sigrid Eskeland Schütz9 Offshore wind licensing in Spain 148Íñigo del Guayo and Álvaro Cuesta Adán10 Offshore wind licensing in the United Kingdom 170John Paterson11 Offshore wind development in Africa: An analysis of regional and national legal regimes 189Eddy Wifa and Patrick Achor12 Offshore wind licensing in the United States of America 209Alexander Severance13 The regulatory framework for offshore wind electricity generation in Argentina 234Ezequiel Cassagne14 Offshore wind licensing in Colombia: A pioneer in Latin America and the Caribbean 253Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui and Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta15 Building on strong foundations? An examination of Australia’s new offshore wind energy regulation 273Jack Edward Brown16 Research on the offshore wind licensing in China 296Haifeng Deng17 Offshore wind licensing in Japan and South Korea 314Suchanun Hunsa-Udom18 Offshore wind power licensing evolution in Taiwan: Perhaps the most ambitious but the weakest rule oflaw in the world 334Anton Ming-Zhi GAO19 Offshore wind licensing trends and observations 359Tina Soliman Hunter and Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui

‘Regulatory and legal challenges constitute the core of this magnificent book, which brings together many experts and perspectives on the legal and regulatory framework in different offshore wind energy jurisdictions.’