7. Environmental and social impacts
An offshore wind farm generates several types of environmental impact, which we have attempted to summarize here. Given the current state of knowledge, the actual impacts have yet to be fully quantified. The following text should therefore be treated with caution, as future data could well lead to a more or less thorough rewriting.
Every offshore wind farm project must be the subject of an environmental impact assessment, drawn up with site-specific considerations in mind. Only such a document can claim to cover all the points .
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Bibliography
Websites
Syndicat des énergies renouvelables http://www.enr.fr
European Wind Energy Association – EWEA (European Wind Energy Association) http://www.ewea.org
British Wind Energy Association http://www.bwea.com/offshore/
...Events
EWEA Offshore: Conference and exhibition, held every two years in autumn in Europe (odd-numbered years). http://www.ewea.org
Windforce: Wind Energie Agentur conference and exhibition, held annually in Northern Germany http://www.wab.net
Standards and norms
- Design of Offshore Wind Turbine Structures – Offshore Standard - DNV-OS-J101 - 10-11
- Guideline for the Certification of Offshore Wind Turbines http://www.onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/mb/Offshore%20Wind/Guideline.pdf - Germanischer Lloyds -
- International Standard for Wind Turbines Part 3: Design requirements for offshore wind turbines http://www.webstore.iec.ch/preview/info_iec61400-3%7Bed1.0%7Db.pdf -...
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