Renewables – offshore wind

With bigger wind farms being built further offshore, ferrying maintenance crews to and fro every day no longer makes sense. Developers such as Vattenfall are turning to offshore accommodation to cut their costs. The company’s service engineers will spend two or three weeks at a time here, working 12-hour shifts maintaining the turbines of DanTysk and, in due course, Sandbank, a 72-turbine project under construction to the West.

Telegraph 24th Sept 2016 read more »