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OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY PROJECTS: A WORKSHOP
OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY PROJECTS: A WORKSHOP
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of the U.S. Department of the Interior.1 In mid-2009, MMS, in collaboration with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, issued a regulatory framework and interim guidelines for the orderly, safe, and environmentally responsible development of offshore renewable energy projects on the outer continental shelf.
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The first presentation by MMS Senior Technical Advisor John Cushing described the status of MMS programs and its expectations for the workshop. MMS goals for this workshop were stated as the following questions: • What constitutes good engineering judgment and practices for the design, fabrication, and installation of offshore wind energy structures?
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offshore wind energy projects in the future. Comments offered by individual participants during the breakout group discussions included the following: • Group 1: CVA role and qualifications: – The CVA role is viewed as advisory for verifying conformance with appropriate standards and as an active validation role regarding appropriate environmental loads.
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– There is a need to better define various agency regulator responsibilities and pursue active memoranda of understanding with other federal agencies. • Group 2: Standards and practices: – Industry could provide appropriate consensus standards that could be adopted by MMS, and MMS could then accept a design basis approach as an interim solution.
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Breakout Group 2 Breakout Group 2 focused on standards, specifically, what existing standards could be applied or adapted and what standards need to be developed separately because the wind energy system presents unique challenges not covered by previous regulations. Comments offered by individual participants included the following (not in order of importance)
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Comments offered by individual participants included the following: • This issue should also include what data should be collected and measured in general by all agencies. • There is already a large amount of publicly available data, but these data need to be investigated for adequacy of measurement and analysis and adapted to unique conditions of wind energy systems (e.g., extrapolating wind data from surface buoy observations to the hub height of a wind turbine)
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MMS Senior Technical Advisor John Cushing defined the process and path forward to address these issues as arduous and time consuming but necessary, because MMS wants to get it right from the start. MMS believes that, to the extent possible, it will be most effective to use industry-derived consensus standards as a basis for regulations and to develop a full regulatory process from this base.
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• Whatever government process is implemented, participants emphasized that it should facilitate rather than hinder private development and that it therefore should be a simple and productive process.
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