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Offshore wind energy is a hugely important substitute for fossil fuels and wind farms – both seabed and floating – are a growth industry around the globe. The challenges, though, are considerable. Julian Champkin reports.


Renewables are gathering pace. New wind farms, on and offshore, are being installed. It used to be a difficult, challenging, slow business. It is still difficult and challenging... but it is no longer slow. Speed has become a priority. There is an urgency both for supplying clean energy – accelerated not only by the


Van Oord


has installed 70 monopiles within five months


Ukrainian crisis and sudden cessation of Russian energy supplies to Europe but by the need to achieve carbon net zero as rapidly as possible in order to keep climate change within any form of achievable targets. So methods that speed installation are at a premium and efforts to devise them are intensive.


As an example of the scale and pace of offshore installation, Dutch maritime company Van Oord has just successfully installed the last of 70 monopile for the Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm. The farm is 18.5 kilometres off the coast of the Netherlands and is being built and run by Crosswind, a joint venture between Shell and Enerco.


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