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Offshore renewable energy
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Enabling investment in offshore renewable energy discussion document
- Minister’s foreword
- Executive summary
- Chapter 1: Purpose of this consultation
- Chapter 2: Context
- Chapter 3: Why does the government need to enable feasibility activity now?
- Chapter 4: Proposals for managing feasibility activities
- Chapter 5: Māori involvement in the assessment of feasibility
- Chapter 6: Considerations for a permitting framework
- Chapter 7: Information on existing uses, interests, and values
- Annex 1: Location of interest maps
- Annex 2: Proposed resource management reforms
- Annex 3: International models for offshore renewable energy regulation
- Annex 4: Aotearoa New Zealand’s international obligations
- Annex 5: Mapping uses, interests, and values
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Summary of submissions: Developing a regulatory framework for offshore renewable energy
- Background
- Summary of submissions
- Chapter 4: Feasibility Permits
- Chapter 5: Commercial permits
- Chapter 6: Economics of the regime
- Chapter 7: Māori rights and interests and enabling iwi and hapū involvement
- Chapter 8: Interaction with the processes for environmental consents
- Chapter 9: Enabling transmission and other infrastructure
- Chapter 10: Decommissioning
- Chapter 11: Compliance
- Chapter 12: Other regulatory matters
- Annex 1: List of submitters
- Design of the offshore renewable energy regulatory regime
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Enabling investment in offshore renewable energy discussion document
Summary of submissions
Overall, most submitters supported the proposed permitting regime. They indicated that the proposed approach, subject to some suggested changes, provided necessary certainty for development to take place.
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Several submitters noted the benefit of aligning the regime with the Australian regime to allow developers to streamline developments across the Tasman.
The few submitters that did not support a permitting regime either said a government-led, spatially planned approach would be more appropriate, or that a new regime was not necessary. The concerns expressed were generally related to the balance between a regulated and developer-led industry canvassed in our first consultation in 2022.
Many submitters provided comments on the value proposition of offshore wind to the New Zealand energy system and enabling measures beyond the regulatory regime. While this feedback has been fed into wider MBIE energy policy processes, we have not covered this feedback in this document as it was not the focus of this consultation process.