Transforming offshore experience into floating wind expertise

“I hope that my children see that I have a job that I find meaningful, which contributes to technology development and innovation within renewables,” says Principal Engineer at DNV, Anne Lene Haukanes Hopstad. She started out working with offshore pipelines and moved to renewables when floating wind emerged as an industry.

“The oil and gas industry has done a lot of technology development and innovation that is very relevant for renewables. So now the floating wind industry is able to benefit from this experience,” she explains.

You can watch the film below.

DNV is dedicated to protecting life, property and the environment. Offering cutting-edge digital solutions to manage risk and enhance safety and asset performance across technologies such as vessels, pipelines, offshore structures and electric grids, the company’s vision is to be a trusted voice to tackle global transformations.

Magnus Ebbeson (formerly Floating Wind Segment Lead at DNV, now Director of Origination and Decision Support at Aker Solutions) believes that wind power will play an important role in the energy transition.

“It's really encouraging to see all these players from the maritime industry, from the bottom-fixed wind industry as well as from the oil and gas industry. Really big players are going now into floating wind,” he says.

One of the big offshore wind players is Equinor. The company is not, however, new to the game. With close to 20 years’ experience in the field, it is one of the leading developers in floating offshore wind. In the film, Leif Delp, Senior Advisor Floating Offshore Wind at Equinor, highlights Hywind Scotland, which the company developed and now operates.

“Hywind Scotland is the world's first floating wind farm and will produce power to
20 000 Scottish homes. It has performed extremely well, exceeding our expectations.”

Equinor has since installed Hywind Tampen, the world’s largest floating wind farm and the first built specifically to power offshore oil and gas installations.