Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator programme is inviting tenders for windfarm engineering R&D services.

A significant number of UK offshore wind farms have experienced difficulties associated with the installation and burial of intra-array cables. In 2011, the OWA commissioned a study to develop recommendations for optimised cable installation methodologies showing that optimising the way of doing cable route surveys and burial depth analysis has the potential to reduce the overall lifecycle cost of a wind farm.