Environmental Safety and Sustainability of Wind Energy Projects at Remote Territories of the Arctic Region (Safe Wind)

Programme 2014 - 2020 Kolarctic ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2023-10-30

Description

Description (EN):

Development of the Arctic zone is leading to increasing demand for up-to-date and sustainable energy supply systems. Modernization of energy-supply grids, local energy generating infrastructure, and expanding the usage of renewable sources of energy, are responding to the modern trends. Wind power plays an important role in the development of energy supply systems in remote territories, and the increasing number of wind power farms will have an increasing impact on the environment. The project objective was to address the above mentioned trends by finding cross-border, common approaches for minimizing wind farms’ negative environmental impact in the future.

Achievements (EN):

A comprehensive literature study was carried out to understand the existing regulations in Norway, Finland and Russia about environmental impact of wind energy project. The focus was on both onshore and offshore wind energy projects. The project activities were initiated as planned and a very good cross boarder collaboration is established between the project partners. The removal of Russian partners from the project in early 2022 affected the final planned activities of the project. The project outcomes are useful for the wind energy industry and policy makers of wind energy project in partner countries. The project reports provide a good overview of existing regulations in each partner country regarding the environmental impact of wind energy projects.

Website: https://kolarctic.info/

Expected Results (EN): The project aimed at mutual learning and unification of the requirements and approaches to the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) process in the participating regions in Norway, the European Union and Russia, where preliminary EIA’s were carried out.

Thematic information

Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Renewable energy

Thematic Objective: Environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Partners (4)

Lead Partner: Autonomous nonprofit organization «Center of management projects for social and economy, scientific and technological, innovative development and staff provision for regions»

Department: International projects Department

Address: Kavalergardskaya 7, 191015 St. Petersburg, Russia

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://n-west.su/

Total budget: EUR 15 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 6 075.00

ENI budget: EUR 6 075.00

Северный (Арктический) федеральный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова

Name: Северный (Арктический) федеральный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова

Department: Department of power engineering, Higher school of energy, oil and gas

Address: 17, Severnaya Dvina Embankment, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.narfu.ru

Total budget: EUR 15 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 6 075.00

ENI budget: EUR 6 075.00

Kainuun liitto

Name: Kainuun liitto

Department: Land use

Address: Kauppakatu 1, 87100 Kajaani, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kainuunliitto.fi

Total budget: EUR 20 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 8 100.00

ENI budget: EUR 8 100.00

UiT, Norges Arktiske Universitet

Name: UiT, Norges Arktiske Universitet

Department: Faculty for Engineering Science and Technology - Narvik Campus, Institute for Industrial Technology (IIT)

Address: Lodve Langesgate 2, 8514 Narvik, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.uit.no

Total budget: EUR 49 750.00

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Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov

Environmental Safety and Sustainability of Wind Energy Projects at Remote Territories of the Arctic Region (Safe Wind)

Partners and Projects info

Kainuun liitto

Environmental Safety and Sustainability of Wind Energy Projects at Remote Territories of the Arctic Region (Safe Wind)

Partners and Projects info

UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

Environmental Safety and Sustainability of Wind Energy Projects at Remote Territories of the Arctic Region (Safe Wind)

Partners and Projects info

Autonomous nonprofit organization «Center of management projects for social and economy, scientific and technological, innovative development and staff provision for regions»

Environmental Safety and Sustainability of Wind Energy Projects at Remote Territories of the Arctic Region (Safe Wind)

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Project partner

Summary

Project name (EN): Environmental Safety and Sustainability of Wind Energy Projects at Remote Territories of the Arctic Region (Safe Wind)

Project acronym: SafeWind

Project start date: 2021-06-21

Project end date: 2022-06-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 99 750.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 40 500.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 20 250.00.
ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 20 250.00.

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Kolarctic ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-10-30

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

44 / 44 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

233 / 233 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://kolarctic.info/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2023-01-09.

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Environmental Safety and Sustainability of Wind Energy Projects at Remote Territories of the Arctic Region (Safe Wind)

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