What we achieve

Answering to the call – SMARTER MED the SPOWIND project (Spatial Planning for Offshore Wind Industry Development) aim addresses offshore wind energy potential in the Mediterranean Sea, overcoming challenges with a marine spatial planning WebGIS tool. This assists stakeholders in decision-making on suitable locations and technologies. Through a maritime datahub and transnational cooperation, the project enhances coordination for sustainable energy production.

Results

  1. Project supports the development of solutions to accelerate technology transfer in the offshore wind industry. The partnership will develop a WebGIS tool (1 solution) and share marine spatial planning repositories (1 solution) that will support SMEs, companies and public administrations in feasibility and techno-economic analysis related to an offshore wind farm. Transnational cooperation between SMEs and 4-Helix stakeholders will also be enhanced through the maritime data hub and by the event organiser tool (2 solutions). Skills development and capacity building of institutions will also be supported as the project provides methodologies for maritime spatial planning, techno-economic analysis and energy transfer of offshore wind farms that improve decision making (1 solution).
  2.  Policy makers and authorities from different countries in the partnership will be involved in the activities to establish a legal framework to raise awareness of the need for government support for the offshore wind industry. Various stakeholders from SMEs, companies, research institutions and sectoral agencies involved in the offshore wind industry in the Mediterranean will be supported and their synergy and cooperation enhanced through the development of a maritime data hub network. Institutional capacity will be enhanced through the project and associated partners as well as associations such as FEDARENE, the Mediterranean Transmission System Operators (Med-TSO) and the Mediterranean Energy Regulators (MED-REG). The associated partner ANEV includes more than 90 wind energy companies that could be actively involved, as well as Med-TSO (20 members), MED-REG (27 members), Fedarene (80 members).

Deliverables

  1. Electricity transmission grid dataset structure and methodology.
  2. Techno-economic assessment methods for offshore wind farms.
  3. Power-to-X technologies and development of methodology and algorithm.
  4. Methodology for a comparative assessment of energy transfer solutions.
  5. WebGIS final results: methodology and identification of case studies.