Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices
The AWEA Standards Development Board, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has developed a set of recommended practices for using existing standards to plan, design, construct and operate offshore wind facilities in compliance with federal and state regulations.
The AWEA Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices cite four levels of existing standards – international standards, American National Standards, classification society standards (e.g., Germanischer Lloyd, Det Norske Veritas, and The American Bureau of Shipping), and commercial standards and guidelines – to address five critical areas:
--Manufacturing, qualification testing, installation, and construction
--Safety of equipment
--Operation and inspection
--Decommissioning
AWEA is an Accredited Standards Developer of wind energy standards under the authority of the American National Standards Institute. The development of the recommended practices followed the procedures approved by ANSI.
The “Offshore Compliance Recommended Practices” may be downloaded from this site at no cost, but only if you agree with the provisions of the copyright statement below:
© 2012 by American Wind Energy Association. All rights reserved. You may download, reproduce and print this Recommended Practices document (the “Document”) for non-commercial or personal use only, and, by downloading or accessing the Document, you agree: (i) that you shall not sell or otherwise engage in commercial distribution of this Document; (ii) that you shall not make any alterations, modifications, deletions or other changes to this Document without the express written consent of American Wind Energy Association (“AWEA”); and (iii) to indemnify and hold AWEA harmless for any loss or damage, including reasonable attorney's fees, that the AWEA may incur, directly or indirectly, as a result of your use of this Document. Furthermore, in the event that you reproduce, use or distribute this Document, you shall include the following notice on all reprints or reproductions of this Document, whether print or electronic: “© 2012 by American Wind Energy Association. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.”
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