The 90-metre-long “mothership”, launched from the Havyard shipyard in Norway, is at the heart of Siemens’ answer to cutting the cost of operating offshore wind farms at maximum output.
The company calculates that it will be able to slash weather-related downtime from the current 40-45% to 10-15% with the SOVs.
“We expect to take a big proportion of our weather downtime out of the equation with the SOVs, both in travel and once on site [where they can station-keep in 2.5-metre
