Participating in the Advanced Environmental Impact Assessment Project for Offshore Wind Power Generation

― Achieving Both Decarbonization and Nature-Positive Outcomes Through Biologging × Biodiversity Big Data ―

Our company, together with Think Nature Inc. and Koudou Lab, has launched a joint project to enhance environmental impact assessments for renewable energy development, including offshore wind power generation. Professor Katsufumi Sato of the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, serves as an advisor.

This project integrates wildlife behavior and movement data captured using our proprietary bio-logging technology with Think Nature's biodiversity big data to perform macroecological analysis. This enables high-resolution visualization of individual-level habitat area information.

This enables wide-area impact assessments, including overlaps between offshore wind facilities and wildlife habitat/action areas, collision risks such as bird strikes, and cumulative development impacts.

Project Significance

Amidst the need to advance GX, implement the National Biodiversity Strategy, and execute the Nature Positive Economic Transition Strategy, this project provides the following value:

・Scientific advancement and increased transparency of environmental impact assessment systems

• Concrete guidelines for biodiversity considerations in renewable energy deployment

・Providing scientific evidence supporting TNFD and ESG assessments

・Providing objective, quantitative data to support regional consensus building

Our Role

For over a decade, we have developed and manufactured GPS collars, small loggers, and various sensors, while also supporting cloud-based data management, map visualization, alerts, and reporting. In this project, we will leverage this expertise to handle everything from acquiring wildlife behavior and movement data to analyzing and visualizing it.

We will transform the acquired data into actionable insights (intelligence), contributing to the realization of a decarbonized society while achieving Nature Positive outcomes.

Future Developments

In the initial phase, we will utilize existing biologging data to organize and visualize spatial overlaps with wind power facilities and risks along migration routes. In the medium to long term, we will accumulate insights through pilot cases targeting offshore wind power generation and advance societal implementation with an eye toward institutional design, guideline development, and incorporation into sustainable investment decisions.

For details, please see the press release below.

Press Release (PR TIMES)

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