UK government-funded industrial development body the Offshore Wind Innovation Hub (OWIH) has laid out its blueprint for expansion of the country’s fast-growing offshore wind industry, with a view to building a technology-led next-generation sector supply chain and, by 2030, generating one third of Britain’s electricity from seaborne wind.
The OWIH plan, structured as “Innovation Roadmaps”, spotlights four technology areas – turbines, substructures, operations and maintenance and electrical infrastructure – that are seen as underpinning “all aspects of the construction, operations and maintenance of offshore wind farms, and build on previous innovation prioritisation work undertaken in the sector”.
