Position paper: unlocking offshore charging to enable decarbonisation
Electric Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) and Service Operation Vessels (SOVs), supported by offshore charging infrastructure, have the potential to significantly reduce operational emissions in offshore wind.
However, scaling offshore charging comes with challenges. With proven technologies already market-ready, many of these remaining barriers are no longer technical. Instead, they centre around regulation, commercial frameworks and ensuring offshore charging is considered early on in wind farm planning and development.
Tidal Transit has joined a cross-industry coalition of vessel operators, offshore wind developers, technology suppliers and industry organisations to support a new joint position paper focused on accelerating offshore charging adoption. The paper sets out three primary recommendations designed to help remove barriers and support the transition to low-carbon offshore vessel operations:
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- Integrate offshore charging into early project development
- Clarify and enable commercial access to offshore electricity
- Enable a first full-scale offshore charging demonstrator
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Everything that can be electrified, should be electrified. As the offshore wind sector continues to grow, collaboration across the industry will be critical to making offshore electrification practical, scalable and commercially viable.