1. Boosting blue growth in a mild sea: Analysis of the synergies produced by a multi-purpose offshore installation in the Northern Adriatic, Italy
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Andrea Taramelli, Elisa Angelelli, Fabio Zagonari, Giulia Franceschi, Alessandro Romano, Dimitris Troianos, Laura Airoldi, Carlos Jiménez, Yukiko Krontira, Barbara Zanuttigh, Federico Filipponi, Marina Evriviadou, Matteo Cantù, Stefanie Broszeit, Roberto Suffredini, Giorgio Bellotti, Zanuttigh, Barbara, Angelelli, Elisa, Bellotti, Giorgio, Romano, Alessandro, Krontira, Yukiko, Troianos, Dimitri, Suffredini, Roberto, Franceschi, Giulia, Cantù, Matteo, Airoldi, Laura, Zagonari, Fabio, Taramelli, Andrea, Filipponi, Federico, Jimenez, Carlo, Evriviadou, Marina, Broszeit, Stefanie, Zanuttigh, B., Angelelli, E., Bellotti, G., Romano, A., Krontira, Y., Troianos, D., Suffredini, R., Franceschi, G., Cantu, M., Airoldi, L., Zagonari, F., Taramelli, A., Filipponi, F., Jimenez, C., Evriviadou, M., and Broszeit, S.
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0106 biological sciences ,Engineering ,Geography, Planning and Development ,02 engineering and technology ,Aquaculture ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Civil engineering ,Renewable energy sources ,marine renewable energy ,aquaculture ,energy storage/transfer ,multi-purpose offshore platforms ,sustainability ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Energy storage/transfer ,Marine renewable energy ,Multi-purpose offshore platforms ,Sustainability ,Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment ,Management Monitoring Policy and Law ,Energy transformation ,Environmental impact assessment ,GE1-350 ,Environmental effects of industries and plants ,Environmental resource management ,jel:Q0 ,jel:Q2 ,jel:Q3 ,jel:Q5 ,Renewable energy ,Offshore wind power ,jel:O13 ,jel:Q56 ,multi-purpose offshore platform ,020209 energy ,TJ807-830 ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,TD194-195 ,Multi-purpose offshore platform ,Energy storage ,jel:Q ,Marine ecosystem ,14. Life underwater ,business.industry ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Marine spatial planning ,Environmental sciences ,13. Climate action ,business - Abstract
In the near future, the oceans will be subjected to a massive development of marine infrastructures, including offshore wind, tidal and wave energy farms and constructions for marine aquaculture. The development of these facilities will unavoidably exert environmental pressures on marine ecosystems. It is therefore crucial that the economic costs, the use of marine space and the environmental impacts of these activities remain within acceptable limits. Moreover, the installation of arrays of wave energy devices is still far from being economically feasible due to many combined aspects, such as immature technologies for energy conversion, local energy storage and moorings. Therefore, multi-purpose solutions combining renewable energy from the sea (wind, wave, tide), aquaculture and transportation facilities can be considered as a challenging, yet advantageous, way to boost blue growth. This would be due to the sharing of the costs of installation and using the produced energy locally to feed the different functionalities and optimizing marine spatial planning. This paper focuses on the synergies that may be produced by a multi-purpose offshore installation in a relatively calm sea, i.e. , the Northern Adriatic Sea, Italy, and specifically offshore Venice. It analyzes the combination of aquaculture, energy production from wind and waves, and energy storage or transfer. Alternative solutions are evaluated based on specific criteria, including the maturity of the technology, the environmental impact, the induced risks and the costs. Based on expert judgment, the alternatives are ranked and a preliminary layout of the selected multi-purpose installation for the case study is proposed, to further allow the exploitation of the synergies among different functionalities.
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- 2015