The table below represents the results of the ranking of all issues of task 2.2 by the OWEE members. Rankings are weighted as follows
|
Weight |
Rank |
Description |
|
3 |
CRITICAL |
An issue is considered critical, if all of the following conditions are fulfilled : (1) its solution will have a significant impact on the large-scale development of offshore wind energy (i.e. if no solution is found for this issue, the development of offshore wind energy will be limited or even prohibited), and (2) the issue is not easily manageable with existing technology, and (3) the issue will be important in the short-term (i.e. before 2010) |
|
1 |
IMPORTANT |
An issue is important if some, but not all, of the above mentioned conditions are fulfilled |
|
0 |
LESS IMPORTANT |
An issue is less important if none of the above mentioned conditions are fulfilled |
The average ranking Ravg obtained by taking the arithmetic average of the individual ranking weights and by rounding to the nearest integer.
