RWE establishes new team to service their offshore wind fleet

RWE is to establish a new 30-person team that will be dedicated to servicing its five operational offshore wind projects currently off the UK and German coasts.

The move will secure new, long-term jobs and has the potential to grow in line with the company’s ambition to triple its offshore wind capacity from just over 3GW to 10GW by 2030.

This initiative has been made possible after RWE signed a three year agreement with Global Wind Services to provide a team of expert team leads and technicians in the UK and Germany.

The new Fleet Services team will work together with RWE existing operations and maintenance teams to ensure turbine services are carried out efficiently and to the highest standard.

An agreement has also been signed with Rem Offshore, who will provide RWE with a new state-of-the-art service operation vessel.

The service will operate 24/7 and remain on board the service operation vessel for two weeks at a time. Over three years it is expected that this service model will create 70 new and highly-skilled jobs, including wind technician apprentices and graduate placements.

Of the new service, Thomas Michel, Chief Operating Officer RWE Offshore Wind, said: “It will create a step change in our RWE Offshore servicing strategy by moving from site scale planning and execution to a “Fleet Wide Servicing” model. There are numerous additional benefits, including delivering improved Quality Health Safety Environment performance, commercial availability and wind farm integrity.“