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Offshore Wind Foundations
MEC Intelligence, Oct 2011, Pages: 59
An Insight Report on Foundation Types, Market Forecasts and Key Industry Players
This report brings you ahead in a rapidly growing industry!
Considering the availability of favourable sites, the expansion for the wind industry offshore and its huge potential is a foregone conclusion. With various projects being announced in Europe and Asia and the debate moving towards managing installation - the role of foundations is increasingly coming into focus.
The manufacturing, design and supply chain of foundation hold significant potential for profit but with inherent complexity and uncertainty of a rapidly developing industry. Currently, a number of technologies, designs and players are ready with proof of concept and a number of new players coming on board to participate in the early growth/transition stage which is underway right now and align to the future.
This report defines the opportunities in the market and forecasts the size, growth and undelying dynamics to bring a comprehensive objective analysis.
KEY FEATURES
Scope by Technology
Offshore wind foundations are a rapidly growing industry with a number of technologies and designs in the market. The report provides a comprehensive analysis on the penetration and cost erosion of foundation technologies by considering all the types of key foundation technologies – gravity, monopile, jacket, floating, and other emerging technologies along with the various designs for these technologies.
Geographic Focus
The study is a “bottom-up” analysis of the development and requirements of offshore wind installations across the globe. The installation plans for Europe, Asia, North America, and Rest of World are analysed on a stand-alone basis. These individual plans are compiled to provide the aggregated global projections of the market size by 2020.
Process of Forecast (Overview)
The forecast is based on a mix of desktop analysis using the:
- Compilation of the current and announced plans for installation of offshore wind turbines by various industry stakeholders and government
- Study of depth of sea-bed in various regions
- A large number of telephone interviews with various players in the value chain to understand their plans and to build models of cost erosion.
MEC Intelligence calculated the currently announced capacity for offshore wind installations and the depth at which the installations will take place.
-The current technologies of offshore wind foundations were benchmarked to identify the most suitable technologies for the installations of the required turbines at the relevant depth.
- For these technologies cost erosion model was developed by considering the demand for their installations and strategies of industry players.
- This information was then used project the adoption of various foundation technologies based on the economic feasibility of adopting the designs.
Key Risk Factors to Forecasts
- The cost projections in the report are based on the current announced plans of the government and industry players. Thus, the forecasts are at a risk from the changes in the plans of the government.
- Substantial increase in the input costs of labour, steel and other raw materials can affect the projections as they are based on the normal inflation rates.
WHO SHOULD BUY THIS REPORT
This report is a must for any company dealing in the supply chain of offshore wind industry, investing in the cleantech market, or desiring to understand where the market is headed.
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