1. IWEA Offshore Wind Conference, Dublin
Clodagh McGrath DP Energy
12th September 2019

2. Offshore Wind
2004 Ireland had the Iargest offshore wind farm in the world
The 25.2MW Arklow Bank Wind Park Phase 1, which is owned and operated by GE Energy, was co-developed in 2004 by Airtricity and GE Energy as a demonstrator project and remains the first and only operational offshore wind farm in Ireland.

3. DP Energy 25+ Year as a renewable energy developer
Operations in Australia, Canada, Ireland and UK
DP Energy has consented in excess of 1 GW of energy projects
393MW are already constructed and operational
A further 2.4 GW of projects are under development

4. Climate Change NASA Climate Change anomalies 1880 to 2017 – 30s video
IPCC 2018 Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5deg C above pre industrial levels.
GENEVA, Aug 29 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes that news articles have appeared citing a draft of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC).
The IPCC will consider the report from 20 to 23 September 2019 in Monaco, where it will examine the Summary for Policymakers of the report line by line. This process typically leads to further changes in the Summary for Policymakers.
May Ireland declares a climate emergency
Ireland Climate action plan published Jun 2019 IWEA
An unprecedented number of fires have raged throughout Brazil in 2019, intensifying in August. There have been more than 80,000 fires so far this year, the most ever recorded by the country’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). It’s a nearly 80 percent jump compared to the number of fires the country experienced over the same time period in More than half of those fires are taking place in the Amazon.

5. Irish ORE Pipeline Projects
Total > 9.5 GW. Target 3.5 GW
Total Fixed – 8 GW
Total East Coast Fixed GW
Legacy ~ 2 GW
10 year indicative programme
10 year indicative programme – challenging, need to develop south coast in parallel
PFOW – 6GW –

6. Industry Challenges Offshore Renewal Energy
Market & Regulatory
Site Acquisition
Technology, Resource & Site Design
Consenting & Monitoring
Finance
Grid
Supply Chain
Public Consultation
Operations
Markets & Regulatory – Resources cf RUK DEFRA & UK Sector Deal
Site Acquisition – Planning interest secured (exclusivity), competition?
Technology Fixed – increase in size – visual impacts/ Floating at commercial scale
Consenting & Monitoring EIA, CIA IROPI, Noise
Grid – Eirgrid tender on Grid Centralisation, Decentralisation or Hybrid. East Coast Study – South Coast study. Tomorrow Energy Scenarios (and the subsequent “System Needs Assessment” document) to be made available. While the reports published are generally very vague, the study inputs and outputs behind the publications are very informative, and access to this information would be the equivalent of the East Coast Study, but on an all island basis.
Finance – RESS Auction
Supply Chain IMIN
Public Consultation – Community schemes, BANANA NIMBY, Eirwind deliverables

7. Overcoming challenges
IWEA Committees & Working groups
Responding to Government consultations
Stakeholder Engagement
Eirwind
a Joint Industry Project led by UCC to influence the MSP and MAFA processes and progress offshore wind in Ireland
Now 10 industry partners and co-funding from Science Foundation Ireland
Investigating suitable areas for offshore wind in Ireland; development optimisation, markets and governance issues
Advisory group includes representatives from 2 main government departments DHPLG and DCCAE, SEAI, GSI & MI

8. Thank you DP Energy Ireland Ltd
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