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Survey: Subsea Inspection in Offshore Wind

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As part of its Offshore Wind Accelerator Programme, The Carbon Trust and the OWA partners have identified that offshore wind is increasingly reliant on a number of sub-sea inspection and survey operations, and invite you to complete a survey for better understanding of this technology area.

The Carbon Trust is seeking to understand what methodologies and technologies are currently in use for performing sub-sea surveys, inspections and other works (within both oil and gas and renewables). They are investigating areas which need further development as well as promising technologies. For further information, see the Carbon Trust - Offshore wind accelerator webpage.

This project will benefit the wider industry, as the Carbon Trust wishes to support identified emerging technologies which have the potential to tackle the challenges being faced today and in the future.

Survey Motivation

A key part of the work is to gather information from a wide range of stakeholders through questionnaires and associated engagement.

The area of subsea inspection is core business for many of GCE Subseas’ members, and you are encouraged and invited to complete the survey Underwater Inspection Methods Stakeholder Survey.

Deadline for answering the survey is 9 December. Later answers will also be considered, but may not be part of the report presented to the Technical Working Group.

Contact Information

Kai Stoltz

Business Development Manager

Kai Stoltz

Offshore Wind Accelerator

The Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) is Carbon Trust's flagship collaborative RD&D programme between the Carbon Trust and nine offshore wind developers that was set up in 2008.

The current phase of the OWA joint industry project involves nine offshore wind developers; these OWA partners account for 76 per cent of Europe’s installed capacity.

The OWA programme aims to reduce the cost of offshore wind to less than £100 per MWh as well as provide insights regarding industry standard (and best practice) health and safety requirements.