In the Strategy and Implementation Plan Issue 1, Annex A provides a Summary of Paper Based Studies. One of these studies is the “Windfarm Mitigation Request for Information Report, Air Defence Radar Market Survey”, undertaken by Thales UK on behalf of Orsted, ScottishPower Renewables (SPR), SSE Renewables (SSE-R) and Vattenfall Wind Power (VWP), the four initial and voluntary members of the OWIC Aviation Task Force (ATF).
The study was presented as one of three paper-based studies to the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Spring 2020, co-chaired by Wing Commander Kevin Walton of the Royal Air Force and Dujon Goncalves-Collins, the OWIC Workstream Lead of VWP. The study explores novel and innovative ideas, not just focusing on technical performance or market readiness of radar systems, but uniquely operating concepts of such technologies. This includes varying onshore and offshore deployment concepts.
In the spirit of sharing knowledge from the UK experience and supporting learning across the offshore wind sector and stakeholders, this Summary is released as a supporting document to RenewableUK’s Wind & Aviation event at the Royal Air Force Club, London on 24-25 May 2022.
It is hoped that attendees of the event, as well as wider readers that access this document from the OWIC website, find this a useful resource and reference for their future work, not only in the UK but further afield across Europe and across the globe.
The OWIC ATF wish to thank the study partners for their work in completing this study and sharing the Summary, and all those across the stakeholder group that engaged with the it.
