Construction of the hundreds of gigawatts of offshore wind plant forecast to take place globally in the coming decades “won’t happen” without the adoption of development strategies rooted in digital modelling that also take new approaches to collaboration, according to the CEO of engineering consultancy Wood Thilsted, which has had a hand in almost 7GW of projects off Europe, including the giant Dogger Bank complex in the North Sea.
'It's easy to stack up conservative engineering parameters and say: "This is impossible"'
Digitalisation of offshore wind project development and rethinking received wisdoms on collaboration with developers and contractors will be central to achieving the ambitious 2TW global build-out forecast for 2050, says Wood Thilsted CEO
12 July 2022 14:42 GMT
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12 July 2022 18:17 GMT
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