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LEADING OFF Renewables $13 BILLION+

OFFSHORE WIND

DECOMMISSIONING BILL

By Elaine Maslin he UK’s offshore wind industry will need to lean Andrews, Scotland. on oil and gas expertise to help decommission What’s more, by 2030, if goals to install more than wind farms as more than 3 gigawatts (GW) of 30GW of offshore wind power by 2030 are met, the prize offshore wind power reaches the end of its de- for decommissioning the UK’s installed offshore wind base

T sign life by 2034, an industry decommissioning confer- could be in excess of $13 billion, he told the conference.

ence heard in November. “Offshore wind decommissioning is going to ramp up

The cost of removing the installed base, as at 2017, very quickly,” Axel Laval, Asset Manager, The Crown Es- could be about $5.2 billion, says John Warrender, chief tate, said, speaking at the same event. The ? rst two UK executive of industry membership group Decom North wind turbines, at Blyth, in England, have already been re-

Sea, told the Offshore Decommissioning Conference in St moved. By 2034, close to 3GW of power will reach the

Vindeby, the world’s ? rst offshore wind farm, was decommissioned by DONG Energy, now Orsted, in 2016. 8 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM