The concrete and aggregates  supply-chain in Cornwall, Wales and the South-West has both capacity and capability (as demonstrated by Hinkley-C).

Huge potential then to build deliverability, resilience, and local content into the sub-structures for Floating Offshore Wind

O+M involves supporting the ongoing operation of the wind farm through scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and servicing. It commences from construction and continues throughout the working life of the wind farm.

O+M includes: Onshore control/SOV room providing 24/365 operational support, insurance, O&M ports, monitoring, inspection, repair, transport of crew and equipment to site (CTV/helicopter).

Relative geographic proximity is often cited as the reason that local region can expect economic benefits from offshore industry (Modelling in the Missing Middle report indicates that c 38% of O+M could be delivered from the Celtic Sea region; with c19% from Cornwall). However, there is much uncertainty around how O+M will actually be delivered at the commercial level of floating offshore wind. It has not been done at scale before.

The volume and scale of opportunity for FLOW is unprecedented - but with major  challenges. Especially when compared to a Fixed Offshore Wind installation.

It will require:

- Using existing products in new environments (loading, configuration/arrangement etc)

- Challenging the cost point of previously ‘gold plated’ oil and gas technologies

- Innovating solutions to install high volumes of standardised products

- Generating a wide demand of skill and services which currently only exist in niche pockets

FLOW will need to provide industrialised solutions, (reliability, cost and production volume) - a huge challenge for un-proven technology

(Morek)