Tidal and Wave Energy
MarineSpace is able to provide development support and specialist environmental advice to marine projects across all project phases – from early stage site selection, site characterisation, leasing, and project design, through consenting (including scoping and full EIA), to consent compliance during and post-construction, and design and management of environmental monitoring programmes.
The MarineSpace team has extensive experience of developing and consenting marine energy projects, and can provide specific support in the following areas;
- Project management including contractor management, scheduling, risk management
- Site selection and characterisation employing constraints analysis, GIS input and figure production
- Marine survey design and management for geophysical, benthic, fish, archaeology and ornithology works
- Leasing services including application support, management of AFL key milestones
- EIA scoping
- EIA management including contractor management, tendering, production of ES
- Technical input to EIA in the following areas; physical processes, marine ecology, fish ecology, commercial fisheries, ornithology, marine archaeology, other marine users
- Stakeholder management through public consultation and engagement with regulators and statutory consultees
- Third party technical support through review of ES / EIA supporting reports pre-submission and project due diligence
- Cumulative Impact Assessment and Inter-related Impact Assessment
- Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA)
- Consent applications for Marine Licences, Section 36, DCOs
- Consent compliance with technical input to installation plans, design and management of environmental monitoring programmes
- Provision of client reps / QC for offshore survey work
To discuss your specific requirements contact Jonny Lewis at jonny.lewis@marinespace.co.uk.