Plausible 2050 offshore wind locations in the North Sea

This dataset contains a set of points representing plausible locations for offshore wind turbines to have been built in the North Sea by the years 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045 and 2050, based off the national ambitions announced up to August 2022. The data are given both as shapefile and CSV. Both contain the same points. Coordinates are lat/lon to WGS84 (EPSG 4326). An additional shapefile gives the zones that contain these wind farms, with predicted years of construction. For the turbine locations or the zones, where a year is missing this indicates the wind farm already exists in 2022. Existing wind turbine coordinates are sourced from the DeepOWT dataset by Hoeser et al [1]. Others use a newly-generated, speculative grid, using predicted turbine sizes and spacings for the year of construction. Wind farms that are planned between now and 2030 but not yet built use 2030 attributes for spacing purposes, but list Year and Capacity as "NULL" in the shapefile. Following visual inspection a small number of wind farms which were under construction at the time of the DeepOWT snapshot were set to ignore this dataset and generate a new grid, as otherwise the farm would be only partly populated. A full description of how these coordinates were arrived at is currently under development as a journal article, and once it is available this readme will be updated to link to it. If you have arrived at this snapshot after early 2024, then check the "latest version" link in Zenodo to see if this has already happened. See readme.pdf for a changelog. If using this version, please cite the data set directly using the title and authors above and DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10259046本数据集包含一组点位，代表截至2022年8月公布的各国国家雄心规划中，北海地区截至2030、2035、2040、2045及2050年拟部署的海上风力发电机组的合理选址。 数据同时提供矢量形状文件（shapefile）与CSV格式，二者包含的点位完全一致，坐标采用WGS84（EPSG 4326）经纬度坐标系。 另有一份额外的shapefile，包含覆盖上述所有风电场的区域范围，并标注了各区域的预计开工年份。 若点位或区域数据中未标注年份，则代表该风电场已于2022年建成。已建风电机组的坐标源自Hoeser等人发布的DeepOWT数据集[1]。其余点位则采用基于对应开工年份预测的机组尺寸与间距生成的全新推测性网格。对于2030年前规划但尚未开工的风电场，其间距参数采用2030年的标准，但shapefile中的「开工年份」与「装机容量」字段将标注为"NULL"。经目视核查，有少量在DeepOWT数据集快照发布时处于在建状态的风电场，本次未沿用原有数据，而是重新生成了完整网格，否则该风电场的点位仅会部分覆盖。 本数据集坐标生成方式的完整说明目前正在以期刊论文形式撰写，完成后本说明文档将更新相关链接。若您在2024年年初之后获取到本数据集快照，请前往Zenodo平台的「最新版本」链接查看相关论文是否已上线。 详细变更日志请参阅readme.pdf文件。 若使用本版本数据集，请直接引用本数据集，引用信息包括标题、作者及DOI：10.5281/zenodo.10259046。