Smart environmental services

Key to the future growth of the offshore wind supply chain is investment in environmental surveys, particularly during early development including surveys, land clearance activities, buoys and vessels.

The UK has a long track record in exporting these types of services across more that 28 projects totalling c.22GW capacity in the last 8 years and home to several companies at the forefront of survey technology, including remote sensing, autonomous surveys, and data analytics.

UK projects tend to rely on the domestic supply chain for these services with further investment in this focus area likely to contribute to a GVA of up to 0.5 billion over 10 years, shoring up our domestic supply and expanding international supply in a serviceable market worth 0.5 billion by 2035.