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Offshore Wind: An Insider View on Unshackling our Captains of Industry
Discover the critical challenges and promising future of the offshore wind sector, including insights on supply chain coordination, investor confidence, and talent acquisition, and understand why a strategic recalibration is essential for achieving long-term success.
“Long term stable returns can be achieved but not necessarily at the level many are used to.” He believes corporate demand will continue to drive growth, as “many companies will have a need for green electrons and offshore wind can provide it at large scale”.
Matthias Bausenwein
Conclusion: Offshore Wind, Reimagined
There’s no question: offshore wind remains one of the most critical levers we have for reaching our global emissions targets. It holds the potential to decarbonise power systems at scale, support energy security, and drive long-term industrial transformation. But to deliver on that promise, the industry needs more than ambition—it needs recalibration.
“Energy is only going to get more expensive,” Prasoon Kumar reflects. “We have to come to terms with duplication in the system, margin pressures, and the fact that some roles are now more critical than others.”
Matthias Bausenwein still sees offshore wind as investable, albeit with caveats. “Long term stable returns can be achieved but not necessarily at the level many are used to.” He believes corporate demand will continue to drive growth, as “many companies will have a need for green electrons and offshore wind can provide it at large scale”.
The challenges we’ve outlined aren’t reasons to doubt the sector’s future; they’re calls to action. From rethinking how we approach talent, to acknowledging the new competitive landscape, to treating offshore wind as the utility-scale infrastructure it has always been—there’s real work to be done. And it is happening now, as we see Final Investment Decisions resuming for projects built on stabilised economics, driven by a consolidated group of experienced players and financed by long-term focussed investment funds.
This next chapter won’t be driven by hype, but by precision: the right people in the right roles, realistic economics, robust supply chains, and a workforce strategy that reflects the maturity of the sector. The fundamentals are strong. Ambition is still there. But success will come from execution—and that means closing the gap between potential and preparedness.
We remain confident that offshore wind will play a defining role in the clean energy transition. But to get there, the industry must embrace a more grounded, strategic mindset—one that turns hard lessons into smart decisions, and paradox into progress.
