Offshore staff
DUBLIN, Ireland — Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions (GDG) is furthering its global expansion with a new venture into the Japanese market to support them in achieving the offshore wind targets set out by the Japanese government in the Basic Energy Plan.
The development of offshore wind farms in Japan brings some challenges, such as earthquakes, typhoons and unusual geological formation. In this new collaboration, GDG will combine its expertise in offshore engineering and geoscience with the local Japanese knowledge of Geo Marine Service Co. Ltd and Nikken Sekkei Ltd to offer survey specification, wind turbine foundation design and certification process support to the Japanese market.
To date, GDG has supported 35,000 MW of offshore wind globally, which is enough energy to power approximately 25 million homes.
The Basic Energy Plan, issued by the Japanese government, has set a target of 45,000 MW of offshore wind by 2040. However, the Japanese service supply chain required to make this happen has not been sufficiently established, GDG said.
GDG has already expanded to the UK, EU and the US.
Ken Yoshizumi, Geo Marine Service representative director, said, “Our aim is to offer solutions for these challenges through combining our extensive experience in onshore wind with GDG and Nikken Sekkei Ltd, who can introduce the latest international technologies and knowhow. We are fully committed to supporting the needs of the Japanese market through competitive foundation design work, which is of major importance in the development of offshore wind farms.”
07.27.2022
