Cathal Ó Murchú and Nilanga Jayawarna recently attended the Global Offshore Wind Conference 2025, organised by RenewableUK at the Excel London conference centre.
The two day conference brought together the offshore industry from around the world, with talks held on five different stages on a wide variety of topics related to Offshore Wind Farms.
The entirety of the supply chain was represented from vessel licensees to cable installers to floating turbine anchor chain stress reducers.
Of particular interest were the governmental keynotes and roundtable discussions which covered the industry goals and targets to the most urgent and pressing needs.
These included job creation, skills transferability, potential investment opportunities and known bottlenecks in the supply chain.
During government keynotes, multiple billions of pounds of investment was assured for the industry.
At least 55GW of offshore potential was referenced between Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the coming decades.
Notably absent from the conference was discussions of grid infrastructure needs; the government messaging to industry focused on encouraging installation of new capacity.
The implicit understanding being that the grid will be available to accept these new trances of generation.
TNEI was delighted to have the opportunity to present their work on the grid needs in Ireland for a net zero 2050 network via presentation titled: Incrementing to Failure, Why grid planning needs ambition.
It was an excellent opportunity to meet old collaborators and potentially some new ones while learning about an industry which will have very real consequences for everything we do at TNEI.
A sincere thank you to the hosts and contributors for a very fascinating two days in London, we’re already looking forward to GOW26 in Manchester.
