See safe turbine access at Seawork

Currently in detailed design phase, UK employee owned Houlder is already talking to field developers and stakeholders about delivering the first TAS units in Q3 this year.

The patent pending access platform technology for safe personnel access to offshore wind turbines is already strongly supported by industry, including developers and vessel operators, in recognition of both the significant safety improvement and increased maintenance window it provides from workboats in rougher weather. Preliminary analysis also indicates its greater transfer capability will have a substantial, beneficial impact on the bottom line over present arrangements.

Increasing the significant wave height window for personnel transfer from 1.5m to 2.0m, for example, allows quick resets and minor turbine repairs to be undertaken on a higher proportion of North Sea work days. This uplift has been shown to improve turbine availability from 80% to 90%, which for a 5MW turbine, as expected to be deployed for much of UK Round 3 developments, equates to extra annual revenue of £245,000 per turbine. Taking the proposed 9GW Dogger Bank field as the most onerous example, this equates to a possible additional revenue of £441M a year.