AfL: Agreement for Lease
CES: Crown Estate Scotland
CfD: Contracts for Difference
DEA: Danish Energy Agency
DECC: Department of Energy & Climate Change (UK)
EIA: Environmental Impact Assessment
EEZ: Exclusive Economic Zone
ESA: EFTA Surveillance Authority
FID: Final Investment Decision
LCOE: Levelised Cost of Energy
MSFD: Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC)
MSP: Marine Spatial Planning / Plan
MSPD: Marine Spatial Planning Directive (2014/89/EU)
NSIP: Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project(s)
NVE: Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
NZIA: The Net Zero Industry Act
OFTO: Offshore Transmission Owner
Ofgem: Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (UK)
PPA: Power Purchase Agreement
ROC: Renewables Obligation Certificate
RVO: Netherlands Enterprise Agency
SEA: Strategic Environmental Assessment
TCE: The Crown Estate
TEN-E: The Regulation on Energy Infrastructure (2022/869)
TSO: Transmission System Operator