Comprehensive Offshore Management Platform for Assessing Sustainability (COMPASS)

The COMPASS project will set up a holistic, open-source decision support platform that will help stakeholders make better decisions about the sustainability of offshore wind farms (OWF). It will combine tools that assess the environmental, social, and economic positive and negative impacts of OWF.  These tools will be integrated into a single user friendly platform to enable a holistic sustainability assessment and support data driven optimization of offshore wind design.

Goals

The overarching goal of COMPASS is to develop a comprehensive, adaptive, and user-friendly tool platform to optimize the sustainability of OWF designs, encompassing both bottom-fixed and floating technologies. The platform will bring together a full life cycle analyses (LCA, S-LCA, and LCC), socio-ecosystem, socio-economic and technical models to holistically evaluate environmental, economic, and social OWF cumulative impacts,
addressing sustainability across local, regional, and global levels, in various sea basins.

Designed for adaptability and ease of use, the resulting platform will help stakeholders explore and assess different sustainability options for offshore wind developments through various actionable recommendations for improved performance. By integrating advanced methodological tools in a holistic framework, the platform will enhance OWF sustainability through strategic component selection, optimized design, end-of-life management, co-activity development (e.g. fishing strategies), recycling options / circularity, communication strategies and environmental conservation priorities.

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