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APEM working on four projects

By: Tom Russell 26/10/2020 APEM

General Windfarms

APEM is supporting four offshore wind projects with data collection, analysis, and impact assessments for offshore and intertidal ornithology.

These include Ørsted's Hornsea Four in the southern North Sea, RWE’s Rampion 2 in the English Channel, RWE’s Awel y Mor in the Irish Sea and Seagreen’s Berwick Bank and Marr Bank in the northern North Sea. The assessments for these offshore wind farms fall under different UK regulatory frameworks in England, Scotland and Wales and require stakeholder communications with each respective statutory nature conservation bodies, including Natural England, Marine Scotland and Natural Resources Wales.

For Rampion 2, APEM has been working with RWE and GoBe Consultants since the pre-scoping stage, and was appointed the lead provider of aerial digital surveys, collecting offshore ornithology and marine mammal data since early 2019.

More recently, following receipt of the Scoping Opinion and responses to the HRA Screening Report, APEM has been leading on offshore and intertidal ornithology, whilst currently awaiting the project’s design freeze before completing the work required to undertake all the assessments (including baseline reports, collision risk modelling, displacement and migrant bird modelling) required for the Preliminary Environmental Information Report (PEIR) chapter and draft Report to Inform Appropriate Assessment (RIAA).

The focus of assessments surrounding seabirds in this region of the English Channel includes breeding gannet, kittiwake and terns and non-breeding migrant seabird and non-seabird species.

Three further current offshore wind projects - Hornsea Four, Awel y Mor, Berwick Bank and Marr Bank - have seen similar approaches, with the team leading in collision risk modelling, population viability analysis, migrant bird modelling and Marine Renewables Strategic environmental assessment analysis.

Gillian Sutherland, Director of Marine Wildlife and Ornithology at APEM, advises: “One key to meeting the governments objectives for green growth is proportional EIA and coalition between planning and conservation goals. I am delighted to be driving APEM’s division forward where we will focus on synergies between innovation and science-based evidence, based on sound ecological principals, to continue to offer our clients effective diagnosis and integrated solutions.”

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