Legal and regulatory barriers to the development of offshore wind farms. A comparison between Norway and Belgium

The purpose of this thesis is to present an insight in Norway’s and Belgium’s (renewable) energy policy choices through the evaluation of their development of offshore wind farms. This discussion will look how these two differing states are trying to meet the renewable energy targets at national and EU-level through the development of offshore wind farms, how they have made offshore wind power policy choices in this context, what barriers they encounter during this development, and how being part of the EU or not impacts those policy choices. The first part of this thesis focusses on a short i... Mehr ...