South Fork Offshore Wind Farm

Client: Orsted

Work completed: Provided environmental assessment, regulatory and public engagement support services for the siting, permitting, and post-construction monitoring, since 2017.

Undertook benthic assessment with SPI/PV, habitat mapping, public outreach (including fisheries and Native American tribes), fisheries surveys and development and implementation of post-construction benthic and fisheries monitoring plans.

Rosslare Offshore Wind Hub

Client: Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail)

Work completed: As EIA and AA lead, we are responsible for planning and attainment of development consent. Scoped, specified and managed delivery of environmental site surveys, including ornithology, marine mammals, benthic ecology, terrestrial ecology, metocean, geophysical, geotechnical, site walkovers and topographical.

Setanta Wind Park Offshore & Onshore

Client: SSE Renewables

Work completed: Produced an EIA Scoping Report to characterise the physical, biological, and socio-economic environment. This included a detailed analysis of the marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Identified potential environmental impacts across all relevant receptors, including marine life, bird populations, and human communities, and developed preliminary mitigation measures.

Australian OWF

Client: Identification, Permitting, and Technical Advisor

Work completed: Identification and refinement of four offshore wind projects off Western Australia; Leeuwin, Midwest, Samphire, and Velella. Definition of project descriptions and in collaboration with a local partner, submission of referral applications to the Australian authorities to obtain guidance on proposals as well as the level of environmental assessment required in preparing development consent applications.

Ireland’s South Coast

Client: Irish Government

Work completed: As Technical Advisors, we identified maritime areas for bottom-fixed offshore wind development zones. This included review of ecological and environmental heat mapping, development of a zone identification methodology and review of the plan, policies and associated SEA and plan level Appropriate Assessment.