Global offshore wind services

With long-standing expertise and a proven global offshore wind track record, our experts can accelerate, de-risk and scale-up your project. Advising and guiding you wherever you are in the asset cycle.

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Navigating the complexities of global offshore wind deployment

Offshore wind projects have many complexities that developers, governments and investors must navigate to deliver renewable energy capacity at pace and scale. These include securing the high capital needed in an uncertain environment, the need to accelerate return on investment – and the challenge of doing this amidst complex permitting and environmental approvals, supply chain, infrastructure and grid connection constraints.

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Deliver at pace and scale with compliant, efficient and bankable offshore wind projects

Our dedicated team brings together a broad expertise to support at every step of the project lifecycle. From site screening and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) & permitting, to design, engineering, operations & management and repowering.

As one of the largest and most accomplished global offshore wind consultancy, we’ve supported the growth and deployment of new technologies like floating wind and hybrid solutions. Our experts deliver high-quality, tailored services, understand local regulations and have a strong track record in realising compliant and bankable offshore wind projects. Our offshore wind experts are reliable partners to realise your offshore wind ambition. They can guide you through every stage of your project – to help you reduce risk, progress your project with confidence, and achieve a compliant, efficient, bankable project that promotes a more sustainable world.

How we help deliver successful offshore wind projects

Unlocking global growth and market readiness

As the offshore wind sector grows, new opportunities arise in emerging and mature markets. How you enter these markets can define the success of your project. We support governments and developers with policy advisory, market studies, financial analysis and bid support to accelerate and de-risk market entry. Using our global footprint to tailor proven methodologies to local contexts – connecting you to government-backed incentives and green financing.

Faster permitting and reduced regulatory risk

As pressure on offshore ecosystems increases, obtaining consent and navigating regulatory compliance is a primary bottleneck for new developments – requiring a holistic approach and robust reporting. This ranges from the detailed Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process to stakeholder consultation, the need for proper wind resource and wake analysis, metocean assessment and geotechnical surveys to inform site and technology selection.

To turn this challenge into a competitive advantage, we optimise site selection, feasibility and auction strategies early, to de-risk your project, build a business case and ensure faster permitting success. Getting these stages right from the outset to define success right through construction and operation.

In permitting, we look beyond compliance and the consenting and EIA phases to make sure assessments provide a workable solution for the project and the ecological environment. We’re proud of our unparalleled track record, with decades of experience in complex offshore impact assessments – including having helped deliver consent for multiple zones of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank, in the UK. Our expert stakeholder engagement is built on our trusted position in the industry, and we work with regulatory stakeholders and governments to deliver EIAs and permits that align with technical design and legal frameworks.

Strengthening investment confidence and bankability

Offshore wind projects are high in capital costs (CAPEX), require continued investment through operation and maintenance (OPEX) and take time to begin returning on investment through energy generation due to the long project life cycle. Amidst volatile markets, supply chain challenges, and the resulting cost inflation, investors are more cautious and require robust business cases to invest.

Strengthening confidence in your project’s business case involves a mixture of strong technical evidence and datasets, transparent cost and risk assessments and proper due diligence. We deploy advanced wind modelling, for example, to help select the right type of wind turbine for your project, get a grasp of your business case and acquire financing. Our modelling gives you a detailed understanding of your local wind climate using LES modelling, survey masts and LiDAR measurements, to give you flexible, thorough and compliant datasets and reports that investors trust.

We also provide finance-grade technical and commercial documentation, independent due-diligence and lifecycle cost models that are accepted by lenders. With an integrated approach that helps developers and governments alike to connect technical evidence to robust investment cases, for stronger, more bankable projects and smoother progress to financial close.

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Managing cost escalation and supply chain risk

Combining long project life cycle and high complexity offshore wind requires upfront expert construction and management – to ensure optimum layouts, proper foundation design and cable routing. This is especially true in an environment where rising material and logistics costs meet vessel and component shortages to threaten project viability.

With our heritage in major infrastructure engineering, we act as eyes and ears for our clients throughout projects – ensuring quality and timelines, while keeping stakeholders and contractors aligned and budget in site to deliver tangible cost savings through smart engineering and logistics.
We can deliver cost-efficient design and delivery strategies integrating cost and supply chain optimisation, including modular engineering strategies to reduce LCOE, port readiness studies and vessel logistics modelling. From early-stage concept designs, our experts help you take a lifecycle view of each project decision, ensuring your project is designed for local manufacturability and deliverability, and robust enough to be cognisant of your EIA and consent constraints.

Overcoming grid connection and infrastructure bottlenecks

The size of offshore wind turbines, masts or floating wind foundations and turbines, often dwarfs docks and ports – acting as a visual reminder of the logistical, manufacturing and supply chain challenges in offshore wind development. Ports today face challenges to shoreside infrastructure, marine spread, fabrication and assembly throughput – with many quays not fit for purpose. And as offshore wind capacity grows, grid integration faces new challenges – from losses in transmission to installation vessel capacity and delayed connection.

We identify critical bottlenecks early, combining infrastructure planning and grid integration engineering to design efficient cable routing, substations, and onshore interfaces. We’ve also delivered design and consultancy to a quarter of the world’s ports through our maritime solution dedicated team So you can rely on port readiness studies, vessel logistics and modular engineering strategies that reduce LCOE, optimise CAPEX and OPEX and ensure smooth installation and operation of your fixed or floating wind development with port infrastructure.

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Optimising operations, repowering and decommissioning

Once operational, offshore wind management is about maintaining your asset value. An effective operation and maintenance strategy is needed to extend your asset life and sustain asset performance, including repowering older offshore farms with larger turbines. Our expert asset management and repowering experts provide predictive, data-driven maintenance, asset-performance monitoring, O&M logistics planning, and repowering studies to extend asset life and ensure safe, sustainable decommissioning. Giving you improved uptime and asset value.

Adapting to Technological Scale-Up and Floating-Wind Innovation

Floating wind is a nascent but growing subsector of offshore wind, with floating turbines opening opportunities for deeper water sites to support renewable energy generation. This new technology brings its own supply chain, design and engineering challenges – with floating wind turbines, dynamic cables, moorings and foundations all needing to carefully considered and managed. As the adoption of floating wind grows, it requires its own industrialisation strategies to accelerate delivery and generation.

We deliver front-end engineering and floating wind feasibility studies assessing mooring systems, substructures, dynamic cabling and installation logistics. Our experts combine modelling performance, cost and reliability across floating technologies, with integrated metocean, geotechnical and structural expertise to de-risk the adoption of floating wind and hybrid systems. Delivering proven and future-ready design.

Integrating Offshore Wind with the Future Energy System

Future-proofing your offshore wind project for industrial decarbonisation requires an integrated energy systems approach and expertise. We design and model hybrid offshore systems — integrating wind with storage and hydrogen production for grid flexibility. With a foundation of robust data analytics and system-modelling, our expertise in engineering enables us to design and deliver scalable and future-ready energy systems – from concept through planning, to integration.

Our offshore wind services include:

Market Entry and Bid Support
Site Investigation and Concept Design
Advanced Wind Modelling and Design Optimization
EIA and Consenting
Design and Owner’s Engineering
Contracting, Financial Advisory and Due Diligence
Wind port development for fixed and floating wind
Predictive Simulation
Policy, innovation and hydrogen integration
Grid Integration & smart management
Off-grid solutions:energy islands, energy hubs

Advance and de-risk your offshore wind project with expert support

Dedicated in-house team with multi-disciplinary expertise

Our dedicated offshore wind team spans 300 colleagues around the world, backed by a further 6000 staff globally. We integrate multi-disciplinary expertise across the full project lifecycle – so we can take you from site selection, feasibility and consenting to operation and maintenance and energy system integration to support projects of any scope and scale.

Long-standing expertise and proven track record delivering successful projects

Our teams are trusted by industry, government and investors alike in the energy transition. We have delivered national roadmaps for offshore wind development, including the UK’s industrial roadmap for floating wind, acted as an expert witness, and helped shape industry best practice. Put your trust in one of the largest and most successful offshore wind engineering consultants.

Global experience, local delivery

Using our comprehensive understanding of local markets we ensure your offshore wind project is both technically sound and financially viable. While our belief in transparency and knowledge sharing ensures you benefit from international expertise throughout the whole process.

Energy system and infrastructure integration

We help overcome grid connection and infrastructure bottlenecks. With an integrated energy systems approach and expertise, we design hybrid offshore systems, integrating wind with storage and hydrogen production for grid flexibility.

Expert support for the entire wind port lifecycle

The demand for wind ports is rising as ports are essential hubs for offshore wind turbine manufacturing, marshalling, installation, operation, and maintenance. But to become these hubs, facilities need to adapt.

Our services are designed to offer maximum value to port authorities, offshore wind developers, and governmental bodies. From strategy and design to construction, operation, and maintenance, we’ll ensure your offshore wind venture thrives.

Our global reach 

Haskoning work on projects around the world. Click on our Offshore wind project map to see what services we have delivered in that location.

What our clients say about us 

East Anglia ONE Offshore Wind Farm 

Haskoning’s one project team approach led to an efficient and streamlined project execution, their flexible & focused approach ensured project milestones were achieved on time and on budget.

Keith AndersonChief Corporate Officer, Scottish Power Renewables

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Global offshore wind services

Navigating the complexities of global offshore wind deployment

Empower your project for success with a leading offshore wind consultancy

Deliver at pace and scale with compliant, efficient and bankable offshore wind projects

How we help deliver successful offshore wind projects

Unlocking global growth and market readiness

Faster permitting and reduced regulatory risk

Strengthening investment confidence and bankability

Managing cost escalation and supply chain risk

Overcoming grid connection and infrastructure bottlenecks

Optimising operations, repowering and decommissioning

Adapting to Technological Scale-Up and Floating-Wind Innovation

Integrating Offshore Wind with the Future Energy System

Our offshore wind services include:

Dedicated in-house team with multi-disciplinary expertise

Long-standing expertise and proven track record delivering successful projects

Global experience, local delivery

Energy system and infrastructure integration

Expert support for the entire wind port lifecycle

Our global reach

What our clients say about us

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