Offshore wind development activities definition
Offshore wind development activities means the physical activities associated with the construction, including expansion, operation, decommissioning and abandonment of an offshore wind power generation facility that has 10 or more wind turbines. These physical activities include the transmission of electricity and any other ancillary or supporting activities that are specific to that wind power generation facility. It does not include the associated and eventual use of the electricity produced by that offshore wind power generation facility.
Offshore wind development activities means the physical activities associated with the construction, including expansion, operation and decommissioning of an offshore wind generation facility and the associated offshore components and activities that support it, are specific to that facility, and are proposed as part of that offshore facility for the purposes of its development and impact assessment. These physical activities include the transmission of electricity to shore and potential offshore production of activities from this electricity.