Integración ambiental en los proyectos eólicos marinos en Españapropuesta metodológica

Abstract

This thesis walk over frontier land between two big branches: Project environmental impacta assessment and Spanish offshore wind development. Circumstantial, legal, strategic and political state of the art is accompanied with the state of the art related to previous works about this thesis corner stone's: Spanish project environmental impact state and specific offshore wind project development. Previous research lines are continued synthesizing its main conclusions in a better method to enhance the offshore wind power within the Spanish legal framework The objective of this thesis is to improve the existing methods so as to easy the Spanish offshore wind promotion decision making. Developing this objective, existing methods to manage the offshore wind power has been characterized as well to integrate the environmental issues in high impact project. Among other conclusions it can be highlighted tha Spanish wind and electric companies ara very active promoting, researching and exploting offshore wind plants in other countries while in Spain no energy company has request authorization to erect an electric generation facility within the territorial sea. Other conclusion that explains the previous one is that the defined administrative procedure draws a redundant and demanding legal framework with rarely feasible deadlines and consequently lack of incentives. Among original contributions it is proposed an improved method so as to consider the project budget as offshore wind plant size and site a constraint parameter.