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OWC draws on a vast range of technical expertise across both engineering and renewable energy, enabling us to provide a wide range of technical studies to provide detailed evaluations in almost every area of interest. Our technical studies can be applied at any stage of a project or asset’s lifecycle, providing technical assessments to support decision-making in maximising a project’s performance, viability and profitability.

OWC’s technical studies provide accurate and impartial technical advice to support decision-making at any stage of a project or asset’s lifecycle. Technical studies can give definition as to an asset, site or project’s viability, performance, and even profitability.

We provide expertise across a wide array of areas in renewable energy onshore and offshore, covering, among other areas, the following:

Fixed and Floating Foundation Design, including Coupled Load Assessments
Weather Downtime Analysis (sequenced downtime analysis utilizing Monte Carlo simulation)
Turbulence impacts on energy production and operational downtime due to induced fatigue
Wake Effects and Windfarm Layout Optimisation
Turbine Controller Assessment
Technical Risk Assessments
CAPEX and OPEX modelling

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Aug 8, 2023

EMEC Consortium for Franco-Scottish Wind-Hydrogen Collaboration Engineering

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Geoscience

Across any ground engineering project – whether offshore or onshore – we can provide multi-disciplinary geo-consulting guidance to steer your project in the right direction.

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Cable Consultancy and Engineering

OWC provides the services our clients require to fulfil their mission of designing cable routes, installing and protecting cables, and maintaining and repairing cables for their offshore wind projects.

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Electrical Engineering

As experts in offshore wind, we provide engineering and consulting services throughout the offshore wind project lifecycle. However, our primary focus areas lie within the development and pre-construction phase.

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Wind Measurement and Metocean Advisory

Offshore energy development carries the unique challenge of balancing design, financial and project certification. An optimal quality wind resource and metocean measurement campaign set the basis for any succeeding energy yield or design-related studies and processes impacting the certainty of energy yield. OWC combines first-hand research knowledge in the field of wind measurements with practical […]

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WTG Engineering

INNOSEA is a leading global specialist in wind turbine generator (WTG) engineering, emcompassing integrated loads analysis and foundation design for both fixed and floating offshore wind turbines. Our integrated service solution unlocks a turbine and foundation’s complex load interactions, driving greater design certainty in developing a WTG that meets your project specifications.

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Fixed & Floating Foundation Engineering & Design

We provide structural analysis and design of bottom-fixed and floating wind turbine generator (WTG) foundations, substations, foundation load simulations, coupled load assessments, installation assessment, weather downtime analysis, and mooring and anchor analysis.

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The value we bring

Driving timely delivery with reduction in costs.

Pooling practical experience with multi-disciplined engineering and marine expertise.

Group-wide comprehensive service portfolio, offering turn-key solutions.

Support across the full value chain of a wind project.

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