Wind OEMs Vestas, Siemens Gamesa and MHI Vestas will lead efforts to boost collaboration between industry stakeholders to advance standardisation of components and systems in some areas.

The joint industry initiative was announced as a route to reducing costs along the wind value chain, and lowering LCOE across both the onshore and offshore sectors.

Torben Hvid Larsen, MHI Vestas CTO, told the recent Wind Energy Denmark event: “The industry is now in a phase where we’re no longer talking about when, but how to standardise.”