Wind Industry Standardization (WIS) is expanding its partnership and now includes 25 players from the entire value chain within installation and logistics in the offshore wind industry. Ørsted has most recently joined the collaboration with ambitions to strengthen industrialization and reduce the need for special adaptations in projects. This is stated by Energy Cluster Denmark in a press release.
The partnership includes, among others, turbine manufacturers, project developers, vessel operators as well as players within logistics, ports, lifting, rigging and engineering. The purpose is to develop common standards for installation and logistics that can reduce complexity, increase safety and make offshore wind projects more efficient and predictable.
WIS was launched at the end of 2023 and has already delivered concrete results, including a common guideline for seafastening design as part of a more industrialized approach to offshore wind. At Ørsted, the goal is to ensure that standardization also works in practice across projects and suppliers.
- We are joining WIS because we see great potential in making standardization more applicable in practice and leading common solutions all the way into planning and execution. Particularly around mobilization and demobilization, more uniform workflows can increase safety and support more stable progress. These are the type of concrete improvements that we would like to help create through this collaboration, says Lars Valentin, Senior Program Manager at Ørsted.
Working to reduce costs
The collaboration also plays into broader European ambitions to significantly expand offshore wind and reduce costs. Among other things, the industry has committed to reducing costs by 30 percent by 2040 compared to the 2025 level.
According to the players behind WIS, broad support from the industry is crucial to creating real impact. The more actors that work according to common standards, the easier it becomes to translate principles into concrete improvements in projects.
WIS is currently working on a new design for the transport of wind towers, which will make handling and storage more uniform from manufacturer to installation port. At the same time, the partnership is continuously identifying new areas where standardization can create value in practice.
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