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The critical move towards a Net Zero carbon economy is a huge and complex global challenge, in which the UK seeks to play a world leading role. Achieving the de-carbonised electricity generating capacity needed requires large-scale deployment of offshore wind that, if unmanaged, could have adverse impacts on UK air defence radars used to deliver the security of the UK and its airspace. In 2019 the Offshore Wind Sector Deal acted as a catalyst to bring together the Ministry of Defence, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (now Department for Energy Security and Net Zero), The Crown Estate and the Offshore Wind Industry Council. They formed a Joint Task Force, reporting to a Joint Programme Board, whose aim is to enable the co-existence of air defence and offshore wind. This first iteration of our Strategy and Implementation Plan shows the great progress that can be achieved by working together, despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic, and serves as an exemplar for resolving other complex issues between multiple government, industry and other stakeholders. This document represents an important milestone by sharing the progress made thus far, together with setting out the direction of travel for further work. The Task Force will continue working together, at pace, to make its aim of the effective co-existence of air defence and offshore wind a reality and together. The report is available at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021252/Air_defence_and_offshore_wind.pdf An associated report, Mitigating the adverse effects of offshore wind farms on air defence radar: concept demonstrations, is also available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mitigating-the-adverse-effects-of-offshore-wind-farms-on-air-defence-radar-concept-demonstrations/mitigating-the-adverse-effects-of-offshore-wind-farms-on-air-defence-radar-concept-demonstrations
The Crown Estate
Publicly available
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 7296 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2021, MoD, BEIS, OWIC, The Crown Estate Offshore Wind Evidence and Change Programme, Air Defence and Offshore Wind Working Together Towards Net Zero |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 98cd23ddff40ddb158da72b0d1c813e4 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 41691.001-OP01 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2021-09-30 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2023-03-30 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The critical move towards a Net Zero carbon economy is a huge and complex global challenge, in which the UK seeks to play a world leading role. Achieving the de-carbonised electricity generating capacity needed requires large-scale deployment of offshore wind that, if unmanaged, could have adverse impacts on UK air defence radars used to deliver the security of the UK and its airspace. In 2019 the Offshore Wind Sector Deal acted as a catalyst to bring together the Ministry of Defence, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (now Department for Energy Security and Net Zero), The Crown Estate and the Offshore Wind Industry Council. They formed a Joint Task Force, reporting to a Joint Programme Board, whose aim is to enable the co-existence of air defence and offshore wind. This first iteration of our Strategy and Implementation Plan shows the great progress that can be achieved by working together, despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic, and serves as an exemplar for resolving other complex issues between multiple government, industry and other stakeholders. This document represents an important milestone by sharing the progress made thus far, together with setting out the direction of travel for further work. The Task Force will continue working together, at pace, to make its aim of the effective co-existence of air defence and offshore wind a reality and together. The report is available at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1021252/Air_defence_and_offshore_wind.pdf An associated report, Mitigating the adverse effects of offshore wind farms on air defence radar: concept demonstrations, is also available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mitigating-the-adverse-effects-of-offshore-wind-farms-on-air-defence-radar-concept-demonstrations/mitigating-the-adverse-effects-of-offshore-wind-farms-on-air-defence-radar-concept-demonstrations |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | The Air Defence and Offshore Wind Windfarm Mitigation Task Force (TF) was formed in August 2019, co-chaired by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) representatives and supported by focussed activity across MOD, (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Industry with The Crown Estate (TCE) joining in April 2020. The TF meets each month in full, with an intermediate update meeting to review progress and a number of working sub-groups established to progress specific areas of work. Four focussed lines of activity were initially established to develop a body of evidence to support the development of the Strategy and Implementation Plan: â?¢ Paper-based Studies. To investigate what technical mitigation solutions might exist. â?¢ An offshore wind industry contracted Thales report on mitigation concepts and scenarios. â?¢ MOD Paper-based Feasibility Study by Defence Equipment and Support 11 on mature mitigation solutions. â?¢ MOD-contracted BAE Systems Windfarm Mitigation Study on low-Technical Readiness study. â?¢ Concept Demonstrations. To demonstrate the practical performance of selected mature technical mitigations identified by the MOD in its paper-based feasibility study focussed on those that might support offshore windfarm developments in the 2025-2030 timeframe. â?¢ Innovation. A BEIS funded, MOD delivered, Innovation Challenge to encourage development of novel solutions for the future. Managed by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) with Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). â?¢ Operational Analysis. To help MOD understand the operational effect that adverse impacts of windfarms have on the AD system, and so inform the development of the detailed requirements against which solutions will be procured. The TFâ??s work evolved in early 2021 into three broad workstreams delivered through collaboration between the four stakeholder groups (MOD, BEIS, TCE and OWIC). These workstreams are: â?¢ Evidence: comprising the Innovation Challenge, Concept Demonstrations, Operational Analysis, User and Systems Requirements and initial consideration of Integration aspects. â?¢ Process Development: through which mitigation solutions would be chosen and delivered; specifically, a Procurement and a Commercial Strategy. â?¢ Risk and Mitigation: a Joint Programme Risk Register along with the identification of impacts and mitigations for each stakeholder group: BEIS, MOD, TCE, OWIC. In this way the TF works together to identify potential technical mitigations and supporting processes to enable mitigation of windfarm impacts on AD in the 2025-2030 timeframe. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Atmospheric conditions | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Radar backscatter | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 64 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 4 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 47 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -16 |
| Regional sea | unknown | |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
| Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
| City | London | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
| Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
| City | London | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
| Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
| City | London | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
| Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
| City | London | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/3672/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | otherRestrictions |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access – Other constraints | Any restriction on the use of the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | Publicly available |
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/faq |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Documents |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2021-09-30 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2023-03-30 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery metadata standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 2.3.8 |
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