This report summarises the work undertaken to assess advanced manufacturing technologies for floating
offshore wind substructures.
This project provided insight into the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies for floating offshore wind substructure components. We:
- Identified and described state of the art technologies for manufacturing and assembling components for
floating substructures. These should be either in use, at, or close to, commercial scale that could be applied
to serial manufacturing. - Determined the potential to reduce the cost of fixed and floating wind substructures by using advanced
manufacturing technologies and design for manufacture strategies. - Analysed the potential blockers to adopting advanced manufacturing technologies for floating substructures
and suggested next steps for how these can be addressed.
This report was prepared by BVG Associates and you can read the full report below:
