DNV GL has presented the findings of its latest manifesto for cost reduction in the offshore wind industry.
The organisation has committed to help reduce offshore wind costs by 25% outlining 14 specific pledges with the potential to cut the cost of energy. Furthermore the manifesto highlights that when combined with other trends, a cost reduction target of 40% is shown to be feasible.
The specifics include:
o Complete a cable installation JIP, which follows on from our recently published recommended practice guide to tackling subsea cable risks;
o Help share operations data as a key technical advisor to SPARTA initiative (system performance, availability and reliability trend analysis);
o Provide the industry with interface risk management;
o Implement a methodology for assessing crew transfer technologies and techniques;
o Help to ensure the safe and effective application of HVDC technology;
o Do it . . . better
o Launch “Offshore United” – a JIP to drive collaborative and integrated approaches to project development, design and engineering;
o Optimise monopile design standards;
o Deliver better site design through an enhanced range of planning and optimisation tools;
o Help the industry optimise the sizing of export electrical systems;
o Help move jacket fabrication towards serial production methods;
o Do it differently;
o Use the Force – a collaborative R&D project to show how the cost reduction potential identified in project Force can be applied on a real world project;
o Continue to push the technological limits of turbine design – especially with regard to larger turbines; and,
o Continue to drive the commercialisation of floating wind.
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