Seascape Effects by Wind Turbines — 5 km

Seascape effects of wind Turbines up to 5 km from Shoreline are Downloadable as GIS shapefiles. SEAI commissioned a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), completed in 2010, to inform policy-making in the Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (OREDP). One set of SEA evaluations was seascape assessments.
In 2014 the OREDP was published.
(References to both reports below).
A zipped collection of shapefiles in Spatial reference system WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) is Downloadable below.
The shapefiles assign category values of seascape effects around the Irish coast (excl. N. Ireland).
Appendices in SEA Volume 4 describe these category values in detail (reference below).
All Volumes of the SEA are accessible by using the search bar in SEAI’s website (http://www.seai.ie).
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) offers wind-energy data in its Wind Atlas, a digital map of Ireland’s wind energy resource (http://gis.seai.ie/wind).
SEAI’s wind-energy datasets assist wind energy Planners, developers and policymakers.
References Sea Environmental Report Volume 1:
Non-Technical Summary.
October 2010.
https://seaiopendata.blob.core.windows.net/wind/OREDP-SEA-ER-Volume-1-Non-Technical-Summary.pdfSEA Environmental Report Volume 4:
Appendices.
October 2010.
https://seaiopendata.blob.core.windows.net/wind/OREDP-SEA-ER-Volume-4-Appendices.pdfOffshore Renewable Energy Development Plan — A Framework for the Sustainable Development of Ireland’s Offshore Renewable Energy Resource.
February 2014.
https://assets.gov.ie/27215/2bc3cb73b6474beebbe810e88f49d1d4.pdf