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A Study on the Environmental Impact of Offshore Wind Farms Through Monitoring Case in Overseas Country

W국외 모니터링 사례를 통한 해상풍력발전의 환경적 영향 고찰

  • Maeng, Jun-Ho (Division of Environmental Assessment, Korea Environment Institute) ;
  • Cho, Beom-Jun (Division of Environmental Assessment, Korea Environment Institute) ;
  • Lim, O-Joung (Division of Environmental Assessment, Korea Environment Institute) ;
  • Seo, Jane (Division of Environmental Assessment, Korea Environment Institute)
  • 맹준호 (한국환경정책.평가연구원) ;
  • 조범준 (한국환경정책.평가연구원) ;
  • 임오정 (한국환경정책.평가연구원) ;
  • 서재인 (한국환경정책.평가연구원)
  • Received : 2013.08.16
  • Accepted : 2013.11.18
  • Published : 2013.11.25
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Abstract

In developing offshore wind farms, many environmental issues arise because of the concentration on supply demand and economic logic. Accordingly, community conflict is induced. Especially, recent studies regarding the capacity and location of offshore wind development have been conducted considering wind states and ocean conditions, etc. of coastal seas in Republic of Korea. Nevertheless, studies on the impact of marine environments and ecosystems are very limited so far. Environmental monitoring that follows development projects has been actively done in the offshore wind farms in many developed European countries. In contrast, there is no domestic monitoring data regarding environmental impacts caused by installing and operating offshore wind power. Therefore, the environmental impacts under construction and operation phases as well as the guidelines in the stage of environmental impact assessment suited for domestic coastal seas are well presented in this study by analyzing monitoring cases and references of overseas offshore wind farm. For this reason, this research is ultimately aimed at minimizing the environmental impact in offshore wind farm development and thus simplify administrative procedures in Korea.

해상풍력발전 단지를 개발함에 있어 전력수급과 경제성 논리에만 초점이 맞춰짐으로써 여러 가지 환경적 문제들이 발생하고 있으며, 이에 따른 지역사회의 갈등이 유발되고 있는 실정이다. 특히 최근에 국내 해역의 풍황과 해황 조건 등을 중심으로 해상풍력에 대한 입지와 개발량에 대한 연구가 이루어져 왔으나, 해양환경 및 해양생태계에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구는 매우 부족하다. 유럽의 해상풍력발전 선진국에서는 개발 사업에 뒤따르는 환경 모니터링이 활발히 진행되고 있는 데 비해, 국내에서는 해상풍력을 설치하고 운영할 때에 발생할 수 있는 환경적 영향에 관한 모니터링 자료가 전무하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 국외 해상풍력의 모니터링 사례 및 참고문헌의 사례를 분석함으로써 공사 시와 운영 시의 환경적 영향과 국내 해역에 적합한 환경영향평가 단계에서의 가이드라인을 제시하였다. 이에 따라 궁극적으로는 해상풍력개발에 따른 환경영향을 최소화하고 환경영향평가의 행정절차에 소요되는 협의기간을 단축시키는 데에 목적이 있다.

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