By taking a holistic view of the offshore wind sector and working in close collaboration with the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (OREC), the OWIC Innovation workstream has a crucial role in understanding and assessing innovation priorities, highlighted in this report. The output and recommendations in this report cover the full lifecycle from initial project development through to operations and maintenance and decommissioning , providing guidance to support innovators and the supply chain, and insight to those in the public sector.
The results of this work demonstrate the range of innovation solutions to drive forward the solutions that are needed by the industry. We need to look both at longer term challenges, such as sustainability, and areas of immediate challenge such as radar interference and environmental constraints.
These challenges demonstrate the need for true collaboration across our industry, public sector, academia and beyond to other sectors such as energy systems, maritime and defence.
