The Crown Estate: Developing an Offshore Wind

Farm into the Future

Jessica Orr – Consents Adviser

Contents

• History of The Crown Estate

• The role of Energy & Infrastructure

• Offshore wind leasing

• Strategic Workstreams

• Offshore wind moving forward

The Crown Estate - A Brief History

• 1760 George III: the land revenues of the Crown were surrendered to Parliament

• Civil List payment in return

• Similar surrender has been made by all succeeding Sovereigns

• Sovereign Support Act 2011

• The Crown Estate Act 1961: Sustainable management & long term view (commercialism and stewardship)

The ‘Marine Estate’ Coastal & foreshore

• Aquaculture

• Moorings

• Ports & Marinas

• Jetties & outfalls

• Wildfowling

• Metal detecting…….

Energy & Infrastructure

• Offshore Wind

• Wave & Tidal

• Marine Minerals

• Cables & Pipelines

• Carbon & Natural Gas Storage

• Biomass/Transmission/Energy Storage/Infrastructure

The role of Energy & Infrastructure

Leasing the seabed

Within 12nm - land owner

Within REZ - Energy Act 2004 Within GISZ – Energy Act 2008

Pre-consent agreement

Post-consent agreement

Enabling • Leasing

• Stakeholders

• Policy

• Industry development

• Investment (limited)

• ‘Enabling actions’

• Project issues

Managing • Legal agreements

• Commercial matters

• Optimising tenant activity

• Conflicts between proposed activities

• Sustainability & stewardship

UK offshore wind assets

Operating

In construction

Total

1095

369

1464

Offshore Turbines

15

5

20

20

5

25

44

9

53

23

3

26

Offshore Substations

Onshore Substations

Export Cables

Offshore Masts

*photo courtesy of Centrica

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Asset base circa £12 bn Date: February 2014

Leasing Marine Renewables

• Primarily issued through Leasing Rounds

• Round 3 Zone Development Agreements = special form of Exclusivity Agreement

• Cable AfLs are appended to array AfLs later on

The approach to Round 3 leasing

Government

Zone

Project 1 Project 2

TCE support for marine renewables

• Programme management

• Investment

• Enabling actions

Supply Chain & Skills

Planning & Consenting

Health & Safety

Economics & Finance

Grid & Transmission

Strategic Workstreams: Key Reports

•Strategic Ornithological Support Services (SOSS)

•Rochdale Envelope Workshop

•Cumulative Impact Assessment

•Cost Reduction Pathways Study

•Offshore Renewables Protocol for Archaeological Discoveries

•Transmission Infrastructure Information Pack

Strategic Workstreams: Ongoing Work

• Offshore Renewables Joint industry Programme (ORJIP)

• Interim PCoD

• UKFIM

• Kingfisher Bulletin

• MoD radar mitigation

• Reporting archaeological finds under the ORPAD

• Health and safety guidelines

• Cost reduction

Offshore wind into the future…

• Changes to R2 and STW projects

• Changing R3 portfolio

• More challenging environments

• Optimising development

• Testing and developing new structures and techniques

New Leasing Activity (2013/14)

Test & Demonstration Projects

Floating Wind Project Variations Off Grid Sites

Cost Reduction (to £100/MWh)

Floating Wind & Project Variations

Floating wind:

• Locations still being finalised

• NE involved throughout our stakeholder engagement

• HRA ongoing and should be completed early April

• Sign agreements → developers to start their own stakeholder engagement

Project variations:

• Still in process of ‘matchmaking’

• Process complete summertime? Then conduct HRA if necessary…

Any questions?

Jessica Orr

Useful links…

The Crown Estate’s role in offshore renewable energy:

http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/387737/role-in-offshore-renewable-energy.pdf

Useful maps of offshore wind and other activity:

http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/energy-infrastructure/downloads/maps-and-gis-data/

Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Pathways Study:

http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/305094/offshore-wind-cost-reduction-pathways-study.pdf

Transmission Infrastructure Information Pack:

http://www.transmissioninfrastructure-offshoregen.co.uk/