by Stephen Mills | Apr 3, 2020 | Blogs
Mental health experts advise us not to think beyond the day-to-day when dealing with the current COVID-19 crisis. However, while governments must focus on the immediate emergency, they also need to start planning for recovery. It is obvious that the global economy...
by Stephen Mills | Dec 20, 2019 | Blogs
Ten years ago, we produced for The Crown Estate our first offshore wind supply chain gap analysis. The aim was to identify the bottlenecks in the UK supply chain if its Round 3 leasing process was delivered to capacity and on schedule. In retrospect, it was a tall...
by Stephen Mills | Dec 20, 2019 | Blogs
At this time of year it is always tempting to look back at what has been in the current year and look forward to what will be in the next. As we are also at the turn of the decade, I thought it would be worthwhile extending the process to the full ten years. And...
by Stephen Mills | Dec 20, 2019 | Blogs
The temptation for retrospection is difficult to resist as we head into a new year and a new decade. For the wind industry, such retrospection delivers a justified sense of pride. When I joined the wind industry over 25 years ago there were only a handful of small...
by Stephen Mills | Nov 25, 2019 | Blogs
Even the most ardent sceptics are starting to admit that global net zero carbon needs offshore wind in the global energy mix over the next 50 years. The latest UK auction results show that by their financial close in 2020, we will have offshore wind projects on their...
