Abstract Summary
- Offshore wind is the most mature of the offshore renewable energy technologies. The pace and scale of offshore wind ambitions to support the energy transition present a range of challenges for the offshore geotechnical sector and the broader offshore wind sector, with impacts across the supply chain regarding availability of raw materials, vessels, equipment and personnel, and across each stage of the life-cycle of the projects from marine spatial planning, site investigation, design, manufacturing, installation, operation and decommissioning. -Potential solutions to address the identified challenges include those to address specifically geotechnical challenges, but also geotechnical solutions to offshore wind challenges beyond the seabed, are identified.
