UK's Carbon Trust to aid US offshore wind

UK advisory organisation the Carbon Trust will support the development of the offshore wind industry in the US, working together with the Business Network for Offshore Wind, an organisation focused on creating a US offshore wind supply chain.

The two have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which details the activities they will concentrate on over the next year to aid and accelerate offshore wind deployment in the US, the Carbon Trust said on Monday. This will include offshore wind measurement and increasing understanding of met-ocean conditions in order to de-risk potential offshore wind farm sites.

The Carbon Trust brings more than 15 years of technology and industry expertise from currently the largest offshore wind market of Europe, most notably knowledge from the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme which is aimed at reducing wind energy costs, the UK organisation said.

"This is a strong partnership, bringing together the Network’s local expertise with Carbon Trust’s strong track record of achieving cost reduction in offshore wind, which is well timed to support the U.S.’s recently publicised National Offshore Wind Strategy," said Jan Matthiesen, director of innovation at the Carbon Trust.

The US Department of Energy (DoE) and Department of the Interior (DoI) in September released an offshore wind strategy that they said could help enable 86 GW of offshore wind by 2050.

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