The fast-track scale-up of offshore wind turbines to the supersize 15MW models now in development is “outpacing” construction of the installation vessel fleet needed to erect the giant machines at sea, with an approaching bottleneck that will call for billions of dollars in investment in newbuilds in the next five years to get past, according to new report from IHS Markit.
Global wind installer fleet will 'fail to meet demand by 2028' without $2bn spend: IHS Markit
Ambitious plans to build hundreds of gigawatts of offshore projects around the world could slowed from 2026 by lack of installation vessels, says analyst
6 May 2021 11:18 GMT
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6 May 2021 11:57 GMT
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