Licensing Guidance for Marine Renewable Energy
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LICENSING GUIDANCE for Marine Renewable Energy Projects in Portugal (Mainland Coast) LICENSING GUIDANCE for Marine Renewable Energy Projects in Portugal (Mainland Coast) SEPTEMBER 2016 Júlio de Jesus, Margarida Almodovar, Teresa Simas DESCRIPTION Guidance on the licensing procedures of marine renewable energy projects in Portuguese coastal waters (mainland). DATE September, 2016 AUTHORS Júlio de Jesus (Júlio de Jesus Consultores; [email protected]) Margarida Almodovar ([email protected]) Teresa Simas (WavEC; [email protected]) COMMENTS TO THE PRELIMINARY VERSION The authors would like to thank for the contributions received from the following persons: Ana Telhado, Sara Cabral and Maria do Carmo Figueira, APA; Isabel Marques, CCDR-LVT; Mafalda Rebelo Sousa, Miguel Hall, Victor Batista and Jorge Canena dos Santos, Enondas – Energia das Ondas, S.A.; Maria José Espírito Santo, DGEG; Paula Simão, DGRM; Helena Coelho, Bioinsight. RECOMMENDED REFERENCE Jesus, J., Almodovar, M., Simas, T., 2016. Licensing guidance for marine renewable energy projects in Portugal (mainland coastal waters). WavEC Publications, Lisbon. 95 p. The digital version of the document is available from the WavEC’s website: http://www.wavec.org/content/files/Wavec_Guide_web.pdf 2 WAVEC OFFSHORE RENEWABLES List of contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ...........................................................................................................................05 1 INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES .......................................................................................................................................... 06 1.1 Context ....................................................................................................................................................................... 07 1.2 Objectives ................................................................................................................................................................... 08 1.3 How to use this Guidance? ......................................................................................................................................... 08 2 NATIONAL MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING ..............................................................................................................................10 2.1 Where is the maritime spatial planning applied to? ................................................................................................. 11 2.2 The national maritime spatial planning instruments ............................................................................................... 11 2.2.1 The Situation Plan ............................................................................................................................................. 12 2.2.2 The Allocation Plan ........................................................................................................................................... 13 2.3 The title for the private use of the national maritime space ................................................................................... 15 2.3.1 Who is the authority responsible for issuing the TUPEM? ............................................................................. 16 2.3.2 Who coordinates the procedures’ instruction? ............................................................................................... 16 3 COORDINATION WITH THE SYSTEM OF WATER RESOURCES USE ...............................................................................20 3.1 What is the system of water resources use? ............................................................................................................. 21 3.2 How is the coordination with the system of water resources use performed? ...................................................... 21 4 LICENSING THE PRODUCTION OF MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY .................................................................................22 4.1 Production and tariff systems ................................................................................................................................... 23 4.2 Who are the responsible authorities? ........................................................................................................................ 24 4.3 What are the licensing stages of a project under the regular tariff scheme? ......................................................... 25 4.3.1 What is the procedure to obtain the production license in the regular tariff system? ................................ 26 4.3.2 What is the procedure to obtain the operation license in the regular tariff scheme? .................................. 30 4.4 What are the licensing stages of a project under the feed-in tariff scheme? ......................................................... 31 4.4.1 Reservation of power capacity in the grid ...................................................................................................... 31 4.4.2 What is the procedure to obtain the production license in the Feed-In Tariff scheme? ................................34 4.4.3 What are the duties of the production license holder? .................................................................................. 36 4.4.4 What is the procedure to obtain the operation license under the Feed-In Tariff scheme?............................ 32 5 LICENSING OF PROJECTS AND ANCILLARY FACILITIES ONSHORE ..............................................................................38 5.1 What is the applicable legal system? ......................................................................................................................... 39 5.2 What is the prior information request? ..................................................................................................................... 39 5.3 What are the deadlines for licensing urban development operations? ................................................................... 40 5.4 What are the constraints to license urban development operations? .................................................................... 40 6 ADMINISTRATIVE EASEMENTS AND PUBLIC UTILITY RESTRICTIONS ..........................................................................42 6.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................ 43 6.1.1 What are administrative easements and public utility restrictions? .............................................................. 43 6.1.2 What is the relevance of administrative easements and public utility restrictions for planning and licensing? .............................................................................................................................................................. 43 6.2 Designated conservation areas .................................................................................................................................. 43 6.2.1 What are they? .................................................................................................................................................. 43 6.2.2 Protected areas ................................................................................................................................................. 44 6.2.3 Natura 2000 ...................................................................................................................................................... 45 6.2.4 What are the other designated areas and how are they designated? ........................................................... 46 6.2.5 What are the other designated areas to be considered? ................................................................................ 47 6.3 National Agricultural Reserve .................................................................................................................................... 48 6.3.1 What is the National Agricultural Reserve and what are its objectives? ....................................................... 48 LICENSING GUIDANCE FOR MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS IN PORTUGAL (MAINLAND COAST) 3 6.3.2 What are the consequences of the project location in RAN areas? ....................................................................48 6.4 National Ecological Reserve ............................................................................................................................................49 6.4.1 What is the National Ecological Reserve and what are its objectives? ...............................................................49 6.4.2 What are the consequences of the project location in REN areas? ....................................................................49 6.5 Cultural heritage ............................................................................................................................................................. 50 6.5.1 What is the legal framework of the designated heritage sites? ..........................................................................50 6.5.2 What are the consequences of the project location in a designated heritage site? ..........................................50 6.5.3 What are the heritage properties to be considered? ...........................................................................................50 6.5.4 What are archeological parks? ..............................................................................................................................50