Tidal Energy Consultancy

Extensive experience and knowledge in all stages of development, from feasability through to decomissioning.

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