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 South Coast

Image courtesy of Vattenfall The South Coast is powering over 848,000 homes from six windfarms. With the completion of Rampion Offshore Wind Farm, over 270,000 homes will be powered, bringing the number of homes powered by offshore wind to over one million.

The Solent has an existing reputation of being a leader in the The South Coast has recently experienced significant field of composites with companies now demonstrating investment on the Isle of Wight following on from and applying this expertise to offshore wind, from MHI MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s investment in a blade Vestas Offshore Wind producing 80m blades from their manufacturing facility. A recent economic impact facility on the Isle of Wight to Seacat Services and South assessment found that in 2016 MVOW’s contribution to Boats manufacturing vessels for offshore wind farms in the the economy of the United Kingdom (direct & indirect) in UK and abroad. terms of total output is in excess of £500 million. In terms Our vision is of renewable energy playing a leading role in powering the UK. of total employment impact it is more than 600 jobs.

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 Gunfleet Sands 1 & 2 ONG Energy, Marubeni, Development Bank of Japan 173 Gunfleet Sands 3 DONG Energy 12 RenewableUK Members engaged in offshore wind in the South Coast include: Kentish Flats Vattenfall 90 Advanced Power Services, Aeolus Power (Wind-Energy), Areva Risk Management Consulting, BAE Systems, Babcock Mission Critical Services, Consuta Thanet Vattenfall 300 Training, Coriolis Energy LLP, DNV GL,DONG Energy Power (UK), EDS Group, EGS (International), emapsite, Engineering Technology Applications, ESRG, London Array E.ON, DONG Energy, Masdar, La Caisse 630 Falck Safety Services, Fluor Limited, FoundOcean, Fugro Renewables Services, GE Renewables, HR Wallingford, Innogy Renewables UK Ltd, Intertek Group plc, KBR, Matchtech Group plc, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, Poyry Management Consulting, QinetiQ, Red Penguin Associates, Renewable Advice, Ricardo- Kentish Flats Extension Vattenfall 50 AEA, RPS Group, SeaRoc Group, Serco Project Solutions, Shirley Parsons Associates, Siemens Energy, SSE Generation, SSI Energy, Wessex Archaeology, Wind Prospect Under Construction Rampion E.ON, UK Green Investment Bank, Enbridge 400 Barnes Offshore Vattenfall Skills in the Solent 1 Whitstable 5 Kent Offshore Wind Solent Local Enterprise Barnes Offshore is a family run Since their commissioning, the Partnership and MHI Vestas business with over 60 years’ Kentish Flats and Thanet Offshore Offshore Wind experience in commercial vessels Wind Farms have produced over 7 in the South Coast The Solent Local Enterprise and the fishing industry. The million megawatt hours of electricity Partnership wants to make sure that company carries out guard boat since they were commissioned in investment in skills is more closely duties and survey work for offshore 2005 and 2010, aligned to private investment, and wind. Most recently, Barnes Offshore An operations and maintenance Key to UK Offshore Wind Farm Sites drives the outcomes that businesses has won work on the Kentish Flats base in Ramsgate houses over 75 Round 1 Round 3 Zones need together with their workforces. Extension Offshore Wind Farm and staff who will carry out operations Round 2 Demonstration Sites The Solent Employer Ownership of has previously completed work on and maintenance activity at the wind Round 1&2 Extensions Skills Programme was a competitive London Array, Kentish Flats, Thanet farms operated by Vattenfall in Kent. £1.5 million workforce development and Sheringham Shoal Offshore The Kentish Flats Extension Offshore fund aimed at the Solent’s key Wind Farms. Wind Farm, commissioned in 2015 sectors, such as Marine, Defence, offered Vattenfall the opportunity to Aerospace, Technology and use lessons learned and improve Advanced Manufacturing. Seacat Services the design of the windfarm through The main driver of the decision by 2 Cowes innovations in the foundations used MHI Vestas Offshore Wind (MVOW) and the use of larger turbines across to locate its blade manufacturing Seacat Services is providing support the windfarm. facility on the Isle of Wight was the vessels including crew transfer vessels Both Whitstable and Ramsgate availability of a quality workforce for DONG’s Race Bank Offshore Wind Harbours have benefited from over Gunfleet Sands 1&2 with composites knowledge and Farm and Burbo Bank Extension, 10 years of wind farm activity as a experience. which have been built on the Isle of result of Vattenfall’s wind farms. London Array Gunfleet Sands 3 Work started immediately in Wight. preparation for the recruitment of over 150 staff within 3 months, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind 6 Kentish Flats Extension and on upskilling new and existing Total Jobs Contracts Newport Kentish Flats 1 employees to ensure that MVOW 3 Limited staff’s skills are enhanced to meet Sandwich MHI Vestas Offshore Wind (MVOW) Thanet the challenges of the commercial is a 50/50 joint venture between 1 3 launch of the world’s largest wind Total Jobs Contracts first started Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and 5 turbine blade. their work in offshore wind in 2013. Vestas Wind Systems, established Working with Solent LEP, MVOW The company provides general on 1st April 2014, focusing solely on delivered a high quality training transition piece and substation offshore wind. MVOW is driving value programme that underpinned long- maintenance, with 8 full time in the UK as an offshore wind turbine term investment at the Isle of Wight employees and 5 sub-contractors. generator (WTG) OEM. site. MVOW was able to maintain The company has won contracts for Growing rapidly, employees in the a flexible programme and enhance their engineers to work on Thanet UK have quadrupled since MVOW’s workforce skills by insourcing 9 Offshore Wind Farm. inception, to more than 400 by NVQ assessor qualifications, whilst August 2016. 4 working with the Isle of Wight As a technology company MVOW College for programme verification SeaRoc Group is delivering innovation in the UK 2 and to create a nationally recognised 4 Chichester both in terms of our products and 6 level 3 NVQ in composites. our operations. The V164-8.0 MW Rampion MVOW’s manufacturing skills SeaRoc Group has won a number is the largest, most powerful, and Project Spotlight development programme has been of contracts for offshore wind most advanced turbine serially an unmitigated success for all farms across Europe utilising produced in the market, and Rampion Offshore Wind Farm parties; it has delivered significant their SeaPlanner tool, a marine MVOW are constantly innovating E.ON’s 116 turbine wind farm is outcomes for Solent LEP’s training management and monitoring system. the way they do things to deliver currently under construction expected and business investment priorities, In 2016, SeaRoc were awarded a on stringent safety and high quality to be commissioned in 2018. and work with Isle of Wight College five year contract to provide Health, standards, driving down the levelised Following on from the project has supported their status as Safety and Quality management cost of energy from offshore wind reaching consent in 2014, there have a leading composite centre of for the East Anglia One Offshore generation. been a number contracts to support excellence and MVOW has nurtured Wind Farm, a contract to support Serial manufacturing of the 80 the UK supply chain including the a dedicated and hard-working construction activity at Rampion metre blade on the Isle of Wight selection of Newhaven Port as the workforce. Offshore Wind Farm and were facility for the V164 giant turbine base for operations and maintenance selected to provide software and directly employs approximately for Rampion. supporting services to DONG 250 staff and the facility has been Lancashire based EDS Group is Energy’s Marine and Helicopter operational since May 2015. Their This map demonstrates the spread of UK companies to carry out cable termination and Coordination Centre. Isle of Wight production facility and involved in offshore wind in the South Coast representing jointing work at the wind farm. Tekmar The group has also provided services UK operations sites are supported the employment and wider economic benefit from (Newton Aycliffe) will be providing a for Nordsee One, Humber Gateway, by a growing group of competitive companies doing business in offshore wind. cable protection system for the wind Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm and local suppliers; who themselves are farm with JDR Cables providing a cable system including the design and the Kentish Flats Extension. also investing in people, facilities, N.B. The case studies included are intended to provide equipment, and skills development. manufacture of 142 kilometres of inter- a representation of the types of projects and companies array cables to the project. 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