A heavy-lift system enables safe, onshore turbine integration, reducing supply chain complexity, costs, and weather-related delays compared to marine-based methods. Scotland, with 24.5GW of leased seabed, leads global floating wind deployment, and this solution strengthens its renewable energy market position.
Lewis Gillies, Haventus chief executive, said: “Industrialisation, innovation and scale are critical to creating meaningful employment and to driving down the cost of floating offshore wind to parity with fixed offshore wind, if not lower. These factors will put Scotland and the UK at the global forefront of FLOW. This heavy-lift solution, developed with Sarens PSG, is a substantially reduce the cost of floating wind which ultimately can help reduce all of our electricity bills.”
Steve Clark, Sarens PSG managing director, said: “This is potentially a game-changing step for floating offshore wind. Industrial-scale deployment demands industrial-scale solutions and this partnership with Haventus can deliver exactly that. By executing all heavy lifting operations whilst the floater is still onshore, we’re enabling fully integrated wind turbines to be assembled and launched safely, efficiently, and independent of marine weather delays.”
This innovation supports job creation and sustainable energy production at Ardersier.
