With the offshore wind industry crucial to net zero globally, we help developers, investors and stakeholders succeed in this rapidly expanding sector. The International Energy Agency’s Net Zero by 2050 Roadmap highlights the significant growth required, calling for the sector to rapidly scale up to 80 GW of new installed capacity per year from 5 GW today.
Growth comes with challenges. For the offshore wind engineering sector these include the availability and rising cost of seabed leasing fees, planning and approval bottlenecks, and access to the energy grid. Drawing on our local and global experience, we enable our clients to consider these challenges at an early stage of development, reducing the development time and minimising risk.
To maximise the value of offshore wind it’s critical to consider the complete lifecycle of a project. Our detailed experience from development through to repowering enables us, through our offshore wind engineering and advisory and due diligence services, to help clients maximise asset performance.
Innovation and new technology in floating and fixed wind, digitalisation, larger wind turbines, operation and maintenance and hydrogen are key to growing the sector. We have a detailed understanding of offshore wind technology and support qualification and commercialisation for widescale deployment in the offshore wind sector.
To enable growth, significant investment is required in people, port infrastructure and the supply chain. We bring together our strengths in infrastructure and ESG, carbon counting and our Future Ready™ programme – enabling the industry to build offshore wind in a more ethical and sustainable way.
Australia’s offshore wind industry is at an exciting stage of opportunity and progress. The sector has strong momentum and government support, and is maturing rapidly. At WSP, we’re looking forward to drawing on our local capacity and our extensive experience of offshore wind around the world to support this very significant phase in Australia’s renewable energy journey and our vison for a renewable energy transition.
