Today COWRIE Ltd it has almost £3 million to spend on a range of research and education activities. More experts have been invited to join the environmental steering group and new groups have been set up to get new projects underway

"to advance and improve understanding and knowledge of the potential environmental impacts and benefits of offshore windfarm development in UK waters".

New areas of work have been identified. More environmental studies will be undertaken and the COWRIE Board are investigating how this new information can be used in education projects to raise awareness of the importance of the UK offshore wind programme.

The most exciting challenge for COWRIE is to develop a system and plan that will bring together all the environmental data and information collected by each developer during site investigations. Developers are required to give this data to The Crown Estate. They have asked COWRIE to provide a system that will look after and manage the data and make it available to all interest groups.