Onshore wind sector deal

Abbreviations and Glossary

AMB - Aviation Management Board

ANSP - Air Navigation Service Provider

AvLi^[1] - Aviation Lighting Working Group

CfD^[2] - Contracts for Difference

CWIC^[3] - Coalition for Wind Industry Circularity – a Scottish industry-led initiative to increase the use of remanufactured components in the wind sector and to address barriers to achieving materials circularity in wind energy

CNS - Communication, navigation and surveillance technologies deployed to mitigate aviation impacts

DPEA - Planning and Environmental Appeals Division (Scottish Government)

EA - Enterprise agencies, including Highland and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise, and South of Scotland Enterprise

ECU - Energy Consents Unit (Scottish Government)

EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment

EIAR - Environmental Impact Assessment Report

EKA - Eskdalemuir Seismic Array

FSO^[4] - Future System Operator

HOPS^[5] - Heads of Planning Scotland

IFP - Instrument Flight Procedures

MOD - Ministry of Defence

NPF4 - National Planning Framework 4

O&M - Operations and Maintenance – activities undertaken to service, maintain, and repair operational wind turbines

OEM - Original equipment manufacturers - principally the wind turbine manufacturers

OnWARD 2030^[6] - Industry led Onshore Wind Aviation Radar Delivery 2030 Group

OnWPS^[7] - Onshore Wind Policy Statement published by the Scottish Government

OPITO^[8] - A global, not-for-profit, skills body for the energy industry

PAs - Planning authorities - including local government planning authorities and Scottish Government’s Energy Consents Unit

S36^[9] - Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989, used by the ECU to determine applications for wind farms of greater than 50 MW

S36C - Section 36C – the process for assessing variations to S36 consents

SEPA - Scottish Environment Protection Agency

SIM^[10] - Strategic Investment Model being used to coordinate strategic investment in offshore wind supply chain and infrastructure in Scotland

SLG^[11] - Strategic Leadership Group

SME - Small and medium sized enterprises

SOWEC^[12] - Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council

SOWSD - Scottish Onshore Wind Sector Deal – this document

SR^[13] - Scottish Renewables – renewable energy industry trade association in Scotland

Statutory Consultees - Government agencies that act as statutory consultees on all consent applications that includes NatureScot, Historic Environment Scotland, Planning Authorities, and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency

SG - The Scottish Government

“The Sector” - The Scottish onshore wind sector

“The Government” - The Scottish Government