Global turbine OEMs that have outsourced a growing portion of their onshore blade production may soon begin doing so for offshore projects as well, TPI Composites chief executive Steve Lockard told Recharge.

“Historically the offshore business has been dominated by one or two players who built most or all of their blades in house, so it wasn’t as target-rich for us [as onshore],” Lockard said in an interview on the sideline of the Global Wind Summit.