Offshore wind is an essential part of RenewableUK and partner the UK’s energy mix and industrial companies are working to deliver strategy. Offshore wind already Offshore Wind Week 2016, which generates 5 per cent of the UK’s will run from 31 October to 4 electricity and by 2020 this will double November and celebrate the growth to over 10 per cent. Building out the of this industry and the benefits it current pipeline of offshore wind is delivering for Britain. Bringing projects could supply over a third of together companies from across the UK’s power needs. The industry the UK, Offshore Wind Week aims is investing over £18bn in projects to help deepen policymakers over the next five years and offshore understanding of, and support for, wind will be one of the lowest cost the offshore wind industry. sources of new power in the 2020s.

Offshore Wind Week Partners October 2016

Offshore Wind in the North East

Image courtesy of JDR Cables The North East of has the potential to power over 3.3 million homes if the wind farms in the region are developed and deployed to their full capacity.

The region is the home to the UK’s first offshore , The Round 3 Zone, Dogger Bank, has also received full Blyth Offshore Wind Farm and will soon be home to the consent and will consist of 4 offshore wind farms of up to Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstrator. The Blyth Offshore Wind 1.2GW, all of which will be at least 80 miles from shore. The Demonstrator will be the world’s first offshore wind farm to wind farms in the Dogger Bank Zone will sit on the ancient use 66kV technology which hopes to demonstrate increased Doggerland which had previously connected the United efficiency of the wind farm. In addition, the Offshore Kingdom to mainland Europe during the last Ice Age. Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s testing site at Blyth is an innovation hub for the offshore wind industry and will shortly be welcoming the world’s largest offshore wind blade, Our vision is of renewable energy playing a leading role in powering the UK. manufactured by LM , who have chosen the facility to test their 88.4 metre blade. RenewableUK is the UK’s leading renewable Acting as a central point of information and a energy trade association, specialising in onshore united, representative voice for our membership, wind, offshore wind and wave & tidal energy. we conduct research; find solutions; organise Formed in 1978, we have an established, large events, facilitate business development, lobby corporate membership ranging from small and promote wind and marine renewables to independent companies, to large international government, industry, the media and the public. corporations and manufacturers.

Wind farms Owner/Operator Capacity (MW) Operational Blyth Offshore E.ON 4 RenewableUK Members engaged in offshore wind in the North East include: Teesside EDF Energy 62 Consented Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstrator EDF Energy 40 Able UK, Advanced Industrial Solutions (AIS), AECOM, Arcadis LLP, Bond Dickinson, Cathie Associates, DeepOcean, EDF Energy Renewables, EDS Group, Falck Safety Services, Hydratight, JDR Cable Systems, Maersk Training, ORE Catapult, OGN Group (Aquind), PD Ports, Port of Blyth, Innogy Renewables Dogger Bank Teesside A&B SSE Renewables, Innogy Renewables UK, Statoil, Statkraft 2400 UK Ltd, Safety Technology Limited, Siemens Energy, Soil Machine Dynamics, South Tyneside College, Steel River Consultants, TNEI Services Limited, Wind Power, Wind Prospect Dogger Bank Creyke Beck A&B SSE Renewables, Innogy Renewables UK, Statoil, Statkraft 2400 MPI Offshore JDR Cable Systems Skills and training 3 Stokesley 6 Hartlepool Offshore Wind The North East is home to a number MPI Offshore provides a number JDR offer the design and of dedicated skills and training of services to the offshore wind manufacture of inter-array cables facilities. industry including the installation connecting offshore wind turbines. in the North East In collaboration with the Port of of foundations and turbines, JDR first entered the offshore Tyne, College have consultancy, workboats, technicians wind market in 2006 following on invested £1.2m in a Wind Hub and and engineers. from a contract with the Beatrice Renewable Energies Centre. The company has won a number Demonstrator Project in Scotland. The £8m Siemens Training of contracts for projects including 2008 was a key year for the Centre has dedicated areas where Rampion and Dudgeon Offshore company, with their first full project Key to UK Offshore Wind Farm Sites employees and apprentices are Wind Farms in the UK and Nordsee 1 award (Greater Gabbard) and their trained in an environment closely and Sandbank Offshore Wind Farms Hartlepool site approved. Round 1 Round 3 Zones resembling what they will experience in Germany. Since then the company has won Round 2 Demonstration Sites in the field. multiple contracts with windfarms Round 1&2 Extensions A number of other companies across the UK and Germany with operate training centres in the North Tekmar contracts in the range of £10m to East including Maersk Training (North 4 Newton Aycliffe £30m. Shields), Safety Technology( South Approximately 500 people are Shields), South Tyneside College Tekmar has been active in the employed at the firm with 50% of the (South Shields) and Falck Safety offshore subsea sector for over 30 workforce working in offshore wind. Services (Billingham). years and first entered the offshore In addition, the company runs an wind market in 2007 through the annual apprenticeship scheme. development of a cable protection JDR recently invested circa £10m DeepOcean system for the Hooksiel demonstrator in an extension to the Hartlepool 1 Darlington project in Germany. Since then, the facility including new carousels and company has supplied 4800 cable a state of the art layup machine for DeepOcean has been active in protection systems for 43 projects cable and umbilical manufacture. offshore wind for eight years, across seven countries and three In addition, JDR has invested providing the installation and continents, with contracts usually significantly in new technology protection of subsea power cables, ranging from £1m to £8m. developments, including recently seabed survey, site investigation, Approximately 110 out of the a 66kV full subsea power cable subsea inspection, maintenance and company’s 130 employees work system, as well as pioneering the repair services. across the offshore wind projects design of inter-array cables in the The company employs 250 delivered by Tekmar. offshore energy industry, contributing individuals in the UK, all of whom Tekmar has recently opened to cost reduction targets with work on offshore wind projects. a new 80 000 sq foot production innovations such as aluminium cores. Following on from successful facility and is now investing in a new contract awards in offshore wind, R&D facility. DeepOcean have been able to create The company is headquartered over 30 engineering and operational in Newton Aycliffe and also has Project Spotlight positions in the UK. representation across USA, UAE, Dogger Bank Teesside A&B DeepOcean has most recently Germany, Singapore and China. Blyth Offshore Wind Demo Blyth Offshore secured contacts on Race Bank and EDF Energy Renewables The Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstrator Blyth Offshore Wind Demo Walney Extension Offshore Wind 5 Farms in the UK, and Bligh Bank and Offshore Renewable will showcase a number of innovations. Nemo Link in Belgium. 5 Energy Catapult The project will comprise of up Blyth to 15 turbines which will be installed on self-floating and submersible Offshore Structures Britain Established in 2013 by UK gravity-base foundations, which will 2 (OSB) Government, the Offshore be designed and built by Royal BAM Dogger Bank Creyke Beck A&B Stockton on Tees Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is Group in the Neptune Dry Dock on 6 Teesside a technology innovation and research the River Tyne. The project will also be 4 In 2014, Offshore Structures Britain centre with the aim of reducing the the first offshore wind project to use 2 1 3 (a joint venture between Bladt cost of offshore renewable energy, 66kV cable technology to link the wind Industries and EEW SPC) acquired supporting the growth of the UK farm to the onshore substation; this the assets of TAG Energy Solutions. industry. represents a step forward in testing OSB were awarded a contract for the The site at Blyth is home to two the efficiency and cost reduction manufacture of 16 transition pieces blade test facilities, including the impact of this technology. for the Burbo Bank Extension. OSB world’s largest indoor blade test has created approximately 300 jobs facility at 100m, a 15 megawatt This map demonstrates the spread of UK companies since the acquisition of the former TAG power train test facility and a high involved in offshore wind in the North East representing the energy site. voltage electrical lab which carried employment and wider economic benefit from companies out the world’s first accelerated doing business in offshore wind. lifetime testing of 66kV cabling. N.B. The case studies included are intended to provide a representation of the types of projects and companies active across the offshore wind supply chain.

All information in this document is provided by RenewableUK and has been sourced from either Offshore Wind Week Partners or publically available information. The information is correct as of October 2016