As the offshore wind market expands, operations will be pushed further offshore and into ever deeper waters. Sending humans into these hazardous conditions where work would be intermittently restricted to brief weather windows is no longer sustainable. Each time a human crew is deployed offshore for simple O&M tasks, as much as 500 tonnes of CO2 is emitted by today’s diesel-powered vessels.
Recent research from the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, the UK’s leading innovation and research centre for offshore renewable energy , found that the offshore wind O&M market is expected to increase by £22 billion between 2030 and 2050, with robotics accounting for at least £8.4 billion of that total.
The pivot to all-electric
The founders of HonuWorx understood the traditional model for subsea robotics operations could not be sustainably scaled to underpin the continuing growth of blue economy sectors like offshore wind. Research by ORE Catapult supports this, highlighting that a basic 21-day inspection…
