Van Hende, KBH; (2014) Towards an integrated legal framework of offshore wind farms and grid interconnections in the EU marine waters. Doctoral thesis , Aarhus University.

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Abstract

This PhD thesis focusses on the planning, permitting and licensing of offshore wind farms and grid interconnections in the EU’s marine waters, with a focus on the North and Baltic Seas. The main research question of the thesis is whether the current legal framework for the planning, permitting and licensing of offshore wind farms and grid interconnections constitutes an integrated legal framework, and how it could be improved to become fully integrated. This question was addressed by a number of sub-questions that have been answered throughout this thesis. Part I (i.e. Chapters 1, 2 and 3) of this thesis focusses on the policy framework and design of an integrated framework within the EU from a theoretical perspective and raises two further questions. The first question is whether the policy framework for offshore wind and grid interconnections is fragmented and, if so, where such fragmentation lies. The second question is what an integrated framework in an EU context consists of and which of its elementary criteria can be applied to design an integrated framework for regulating offshore wind and grid interconnections in the EU. Part II (i.e. Chapters 4, 5 and 6) of this thesis assesses the current legal framework and looks at some concrete case studies and barriers to assess whether the legal framework is indeed an integrated legal framework, and how it can move towards it. The thesis aims to expose the current legal framework by taking a pragmatic approach in holding it up against some criteria that were carved out to be important for an integrated framework and by looking at some concrete legal barriers in the North and Baltic Seas. The thesis makes some suggestions as to how, the barriers can be remedied and the framework can be improved. Even though the thesis involves some issues which are not legal in nature but surround the legal challenges and therefore draw from sources that are not legal in nature, the methods used to address the questions at hand are still legal in nature and are mainly used to carve out the current legal framework.

Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Title:	Towards an integrated legal framework of offshore wind farms and grid interconnections in the EU marine waters
Event:	Aarhus University
UCL classification:	UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > UCL Australia
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1430139

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