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Statkraft strengthens site evaluation process for new offshore wind opportunities with Vind AI.
Statkraft strengthens site evaluation process for new offshore wind opportunities with Vind AI.
Since Statkraft partnered with Vind AI in the spring of 2024, Europe’s largest renewable energy producer is transforming their way of working on offshore wind projects.
At the earliest project stage, Statkraft’s offshore wind team uses Vind AI to save time in their initial evaluation of prospective sites, while maintaining precision in their analysis. Typically, the project team uses Vind AI to quickly assess multiple sites within a given area for a range of factors, including energy production potential and associated costs.
“Many early phase considerations that took days before, are now done in minutes in Vind AI.”
Björn Mo Østgren, VP Technical Management, Offshore Wind, Statkraft
Statkraft holds up improved communication and collaboration within the project team as the biggest gamechanger from using Vind AI. The platform enables the team to work efficiently in parallel across many scenarios.
By using Vind AI’s Compare module, the team can easily evaluate the pros and cons of each potential site location. With this feature, they immediately see how the conditions at each site, like metocean, bathymetry and environmental constraints, would impact costs and energy outputs, and in turn the overall business case for each site.
“Vind AI represents a new way of working for us, and an important step in the right direction."
Magnus Bårdsen, Technical Project Manager, Offshore Wind, Statkraft
After they started using Vind AI for their evaluation of new potential sites, Statkraft’s offshore team members tested using the Vind AI interface itself as their presentation in subsequent decision-making meetings with management. In Vind AI, the offshore wind team could immediately show the key information they would previously have spent a lot of time collating in PowerPoint presentations.
Vind AI introduced a new level of interactivity into the management meeting. When management team members had questions, the offshore team could instantly interactively show the information that management was asking for. With only a few clicks, they could show specific elements like the proposed turbine- or cable types or the exact location coordinates. Additionally, they could zoom in on details, for instance related to the proposed onshore cable routing. They could also visualise their park in 3D, making the project come to life.
Moreover, when exploring an additional potential offshore wind area came into question, the project team could, within half an hour, evaluate that completely new area in Vind AI before easily exporting a summary of this alternative and how it compared with the other sites and send this to the management team.
As a result, the management team improved their understanding of potential business opportunities, leading to faster and more well-informed decisions.
"Using Vind AI ”live” in a management meeting resulted in a more interactive, engaging and efficient discussion."
Magnus Bårdsen, Technical Project Manager, Offshore Wind, Statkraft
Statkraft is now continuing to integrate Vind AI across their offshore wind workflows. At Vind AI, we look forward to continuing our partnership with Statkraft. We are collaborating with their teams to continuously improve the platform, so that it continues to support Statkraft in efficiently delivering high-quality offshore wind projects efficiently.
"Almost every time I use the tool there is some new functionality to test out."
Magnus Bårdsen, Technical Project Manager, Offshore Wind, Statkraft
