In 2020, the Federation of Norwegian Industries received 10 million NOK from the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy to map the Norwegian delivery models for offshore wind resulting in several reports on the subject.
The project "Delivery models for offshore wind" was completed on 15 June 2021, and aims to develop delivery models and work for increased feasibility to be able to expand offshore wind on a larger scale on the Norwegian shelf, and at the same time increase the competitiveness of the international company. The project provides recommendations for how supplier companies can obtain contracts and market shares in offshore wind.
To ensure competitiveness vis-à-vis the many strong and established foreign supply chains and delivery models, industrial cooperation will be based on good experiences from the Norwegian continental shelf. The starting point is models for developments on the Norwegian shelf, which in recent years have contributed to a high Norwegian share of deliveries, cost-effective implementation models and successful project implementation.
GCE Ocean Technology contributed in the working group for Technology and Products. An important part of the work was retrieving data from a survey, that was sent out and answered by partners and members from the Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association (Rederiforbundet), NORWEP, Norwegian Offshore Wind Cluster, the Oil and Gas Cluster Helgeland, Energy Valley, GCE Node and GCE Ocean Technology.
The following reports were a result from the project (in Norwegian only):