Wave and Floating Wind Energy – Shared Infrastructure, Supply Chains and Services Cost Benefit Analysis

WES invites suitably qualified and experienced suppliers to provide a proposal to address the following requirements during the study, whilst offering best value in the expenditure of public funds.

The challenge is to identify and analyse opportunities for sharing of physical infrastructure, supply chains and services between wave energy and floating wind energy technologies and developments. These opportunities could range from supply chain cost benefits through to fully integrated, hybrid wind and wave platforms. This study should take a structured path through the analysis of the various levels of sharing, evaluating the impact using, at a minimum, the key parameters presented below.

WES aims to better understand the potential cost savings and long-term commercial prospects of wave energy due to the rapid development of floating offshore wind. This includes the impact on levelised cost of energy (LCOE) alongside wider benefits of wind and wave combined in relation to other key Evaluation Areas as defined in the IEA-OES Evaluation and Guidance Framework for Ocean Energy Technologies.

Among the opportunities listed below, a core area of interest is to understand the potential to find technoeconomically attractive routes to combining numerous wave energy devices on a shared platform based on the likely ScotWind supply chain.

Platforms considered should primarily focus on use of modular floating wind substructures, in particular but not limited to, concrete structures which are perceived to present greater opportunities for the growth of a Scottish supply chain.

It is expected these services will be required from September 2022 for a period of 5 months. The maximum budget currently available to deliver this service is GBP95,000 (excluding VAT)