BPD Zenith’s experience in Offshore Wind
BPD Zenith has implemented our MaxiCloud for Offshore Wind Accelerator across the globe and has a first-hand understanding of the shared challenges involved for operators and maintainers. MaxiCloud for Offshore Wind reflects BPD Zenith’s over 25 years of offshore asset management experience. Our solution has had design input from industry experts such as Generating Better and BPD Clients including London Array, Marubeni and Swancor Renewable Energy.
Based on our extensive experience, we understand the challenges facing the industry. These include:
- Young industry means a lack of knowledgeable resources available (skills gap)
- Only a small amount of historical data on which to base asset lifecycle decisions
- Challenging environments (weather, tides and sea depth) of operating and maintaining wind farms makes scheduling and delivery of work difficult
- High degree of safety requirements in a heavily regulatory environment
- Logistical challenges surrounding inventory management to offshore sites
- Asset downtime leading to major loss of revenue
- Lack of industry standards regarding asset and O&M data
- Lack of integrated or connected systems leading to data “islands”
BPD Zenith have worked with owners and suppliers of Offshore Wind Farms for a few years now and while the industry has had its fair share of stumbles and delays, recent news and events show a very bright future for the industry...