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  <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2025-2026, JNCC, Offshore Wind Evidence and Change Programme, OWEER Gap Analysis and Reprioritisation (OWGRE)</dc:title>
  <dc:type xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">series</dc:type>
  <dc:identifier xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=015_12654a08-538e-412f-be8c-abfa910e0d33</dc:identifier>
  <dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">The Crown Estate commissioned JNCC to review the Offshore Wind Environmental Evidence Register (OWEER) in 2025. This was the first time since the OWEER was established in 2021, that a deep dive review was carried out. The purpose of the review wasto understand whether and which evidence gaps listed in the register had been closed by OWEC and a targeted selection of other research programmes that included ScotMER, ORJIP, OESEA and OWEAP). The review also conducted a reprioritisation of the remaining open evidence gaps. This work was commissioned primarily to inform future funding priorities from the remaining OWEC research budget and so the OWGRE work went a step further to ask the JNCC to advise which of the remaining evidence gaps were an immediate, short and medium term need, based on a publicly available pipeline of offshore wind project target commissioning dates. The OWGRE work is complete and there are two reports available on the MDE:
 
&#x2022;	Assessment of evidence gap closure in the Offshore Wind Environmental Evidence Register (OWEER)
&#x2022;	Recommended Priority Funding Areas For The Offshore Wind Evidence And Change Programme (OWEC)
 
The Recommended Priority Funding Areas report identifies a list of evidence gaps that JNCC have advised need to be closed in the immediate, short or medium term.
 
The OWGRE work also identified opportunities to enhance and build on the OWEER content to enable a more efficient approach to assessing evidence gap closure for the future. These enhancements are being taken forward in follow up to OWGRE. Work has already been delivered to improve the user experience by digitalising the OWEER and TCE are now scoping work with JNCC to enhance the evidence gap definition and the prioritisation approach. The OWEER is now here: https://owekh.com/evidence-register/about Feedback is welcomed via the tool.
 
OWEC will carry out some additional work to further refine the evidence priorities identified by the OWGRE reports to inform targeting of its remaining funds. This further refinement process is expected to conclude by beginning of Q3 2026.</dc:description>
  <dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">20260828T15:12:31 20250617T23:00:00</dc:date>
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