Offshore renewable energy installations: impact on shipping
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How wind farms and wave and tidal energy devices can endanger navigation, emergency response operations, marine radar and GPS communications.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How wind farms and wave and tidal energy devices can endanger navigation, emergency response operations, marine radar and GPS communications. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Introduction
- Offshore Renewable Energy Installation impact on navigational safety and emergency response
- Recommendations for OREI
- How and when the OREI recommendations should be used
- Navigational considerations
- Navigation and voyage planning around Offshore Renewable Energy Installations
- Wind farms
- Offshore wave and tidal energy installations
- Methods for fixing wave energy convertors (WECs) and TECs to the seabed
- Safety zones
- The effect on navigation and communication systems of OREIs
- Maritime communication
- Theoretical studies into the impact of OREIs on radio systems
- Scientific and practical research
- Further information
Source and licence
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
AttributionMaritime and Coastguard Agency, ‘Offshore renewable energy installations: impact on shipping’ (updated 19 May 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026