On behalf of the Floating Offshore Wind Centre of Excellence (FOW CoE) and the Floating Offshore Wind Task Force, ORE Catapult has developed a set of future deployment scenarios for use and common reference across the offshore wind (OSW) industry.
The project forms part of a larger piece of work titled “Development of UK FLOW Vision to 2050”, which aims to establish a shared vision for the future of floating offshore wind in the UK.
This report is a summary of the work conducted which delivers an assessment of the UK’s readiness to deploy FOW at the rate and scale necessary to meet future energy demands. By articulating key enabling actions required to facilitate this future deployment, the study addresses critical questions regarding the growth of OSW in the UK, and how to create an economically sustainable industry.
This study’s deployment scenarios will be utilised to outline the impact of key enablers and blockers. The scenarios presented in this study are not intended to foresee the “most likely” future deployment profile. Instead, they seek to provide an evidence base for policymakers when making decisions which can influence OSW deployment. Policymakers and regulators can leverage these scenarios to gain insight into the current state of OSW development, as well as evaluate the potential impact of policy and regulatory changes on the scale, location and timing of deployment.
