by Stephen Mills | Apr 22, 2026 | Blogs
Understanding offshore wind workforce requirements in a new market Last year, I helped a deliver an interesting project: Socioeconomic impacts and skills development for Indian offshore wind, with support from ClimateHub India Advisors. The work was both interesting...
by Stephen Mills | Mar 30, 2026 | Blogs
On 26 March, The Crown Estate announced that Leasing Round 6 (LR6) would take place in 2027, with about 6.5 GW of fixed wind capacity off the coast of north east England. First, let’s place Leasing Round 6 in a historical context before looking at its interesting...
by Stephen Mills | Jan 29, 2026 | Blogs
Indian offshore wind presents a significant opportunity. With its wind resources and 7,900 km mainland coastline, India is ready to tap into its OSW potential. The Indian Government has a target of 37 GW of OSW licences to be auctioned by the end of 2030. A new study,...
by Stephen Mills | Jan 27, 2026 | Blogs
This is the next instalment in my Investing in innovation series of blogs. When engaging with your potential customer base, it is essential to understand your potential customers as much as possible. Not just their needs and challenges (as you might establish from a...
by Stephen Mills | Jan 27, 2026 | Blogs
After the major interruption of the end of year break, followed by the challenge of returning to a busy in-box (and inevitable inertia of the January restart), it was long overdue to get this little series of Investing in innovation blogs back on track. In the last...
by Stephen Mills | Jan 15, 2026 | Blogs
So, with 24 hrs to let the dust settle and a little reflection kick-in, what should we make of the AR7 results? It feels pretty unequivocal that we should be regarding the award of 8.4 GW of offshore wind in AR7 as a “good thing”. On the back of a fairly difficult 18...
