INDUSTRY NEWS
MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES Martin, the Chairman added that the East Anglia projects and Vattenfall’s Vanguard and Boreas windfarms offered multiple opportunities for the local supply chain, with early engagement expected in the coming year and through 2019.
“Many opportunities are 12-18 months away and we need to keep in mind that remaining competitive is and will continue to be a huge driver as the whole industry focuses on how it will meet the auction prices in the Contracts for Difference regime.
“There is concern amongst the supply chain about how this will impact on us and we need to understand and focus our energy on how we deal with it and how we protect the supply chain from being at the bottom end of a rolling drive to simply cut costs, perhaps through an industry wide agreement to
a ‘Supply Chain Code of Practice’.” He added: “The development of an offshore wind supply chain code of practice to set sensible rules of engagement with operators and suppliers should be made a priority.”
FUTURE WORK SCOPES Martin continued: “Mature offshore windfarms would also offer future work scopes in terms of upgrades and modifications and repairs and, as innogy’s Galloper went into operation, contracts for operations and maintenance would be awarded.”
In the session, Andy Paine, Deputy UK Country Manager for Vattenfall Wind Power, will speak about investment, innovation and local projects and Stephen Rose, Head of Wind Operations and Maintenance for SSE, will talk about how Greater Gabbard is still pioneering five years since it started to generate power.
Duncan Clark, Programme Director for Hornsea 1 & 2, will present on delivering the projects, Hannah Mary Goodlad, Environment Manager at Dudgeon will talk about Riding the Next Wave in Renewables – Hywind floating wind technology and Batwind intelligent energy storage and Paul Chilvers, Regional Director for Offshore Design Engineering (ODE), will speak about International Transition.
Martin concluded: “The most important role of the Offshore Wind Supply Chain SIG is to provide a voice and represent the views of the offshore wind supply chain and act as a conduit to raise issues higher. It is also to provide a platform to increase business opportunities to come into the region and help to shape the future of offshore wind in the region.”
EEEGR
www.windenergynetwork.co.uk
5
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69
