Wood Thilsted Wins Technical Advisory of the Year at Wind Investment Awards 2023
Wood Thilsted is delighted to announce it has been recognised for its market leading advisory work by winning Technical Advisory of the year last night at the Wind Investment Awards 2023. The Technical Advisory award is given for innovative solutions for projects over the last 12 months and was received in recognition on Wood Thilsted’s […]
Wood Thilsted wins foundation design contract for RWE’s Thor project
Wood Thilsted is pleased to announce that it will design the foundations for RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The wind farm will be built off the Danish west coast – approximately 22 kilometers from Thorsminde on the west coast of Jutland. With a planned capacity of 1,000 megawatts (MW), Thor will […]
WT’s take on the most effective way to scale the local workforce to achieve project delivery in the US
Wood Thilsted plays an important role for the future of offshore wind in the US. Although not directly impacting job creation in the way developers and fabricators do, WT’s consultancy work has a significant ‘indirect’ influence on job creation. WT’s data analysis and recommendations contribute highly to determining what/how/when a project may progress, meaning that […]
WT’s Alastair Muir Wood named as wind industry global leader
Wood Thilsted’s co-founding partner and CEO, Alastair Muir Wood, has today been named to the 2023 Wind Power List. The Wind Power list showcases the top 100 people that have had the greatest impact in the wind sector globally in the past 18 months. Alongside Christian Leblanc Thilsted, he has created Wood Thilsted, a design […]
Wood Thilsted drives Taiwanese development partner bid wins
With the recent announcement of COP as the lead development partner for the 500MW Feng Miao offshore wind project Wood Thilsted (WT), as COP’s preferred engineering partner in Taiwan, once again, is at the forefront of the development of Taiwan’s offshore wind industry. As part of Taiwan’s Round 3, phase 1 wind auction, Feng Miao […]
How Wood Thilsted’s expertise will help bolster the Japanese offshore wind market
As the offshore wind market starts to heat up in Japan, we caught up with WT’s Gerry Murphy from our Tokyo office to find out more about opportunities and challenges within the market and where there is potential for Wood Thilsted to provide valuable expertise to help bolster the Japanese offshore wind market. What are […]
A Highly Efficient and Rapid Cost-Optimization Framework for Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations
The paper written and presented at the ASME International Offshore Wind Technical Conference 2022 presents a framework for holistic optimization of monopile foundations for a full offshore windfarm. The framework has been developed in-house at Wood Thilsted Partners and has been used for design of several full-scale wind farms including Vineyard Wind, the first commercial […]
Wood Thilsted wins design contract for Ocean Winds first offshore wind project in Poland and opens Warsaw Office
Wood Thilsted is excited to make two key announcements. The first, its appointment as the wind turbine foundation and offshore substation foundation concept designer for Ocean Winds first offshore windfarm in Poland, BC-Wind. The second, the opening of WT’s first Polish branch in Warsaw. BC-Wind offshore wind farm is being developed by Ocean Winds, the […]
WT’s outreach work to attract the brightest young minds for the future of offshore wind
Here at Wood Thilsted, we’re passionate about our people and we’re determined to recruit some of the brightest young minds to work with us as we design the global energy transition. We caught up with WT’s Denmark-based Loads Engineer, Stefan Emil Steffensen, to find out about his recent efforts to attract some of the strongest […]
How WT’s designs are winning H&S awards and setting the bar high for the industry
As some of you know, the Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm recently won the Offshore Wind Health & Safety and Wellbeing award at the first ever Global Offshore Wind Awards by RenewableUK , for its “Safety by Design” initiative. The teams were commended by the judges for the way health and safety was approached as an […]