Offshore Wind Industry

Offshore wind power has huge potential to become one of the major sources of energy, and will grow significantly during the 2012–2020 period because of the large projects under construction and in planning. Governments across many countries in Europe have set ambitious targets for expansion within the offshore wind sector. These targets are supported by the implementation of strong incentive schemes and investment in grid infrastructure. As a result the industry will require huge investments of hundreds of billions of Euros. The industry can expect the entry of new players who can fund this highly capital-intensive technology.

Scope

- The report provides information on market leaders in offshore wind farm development. along with that detail on debt and equity requirements for offshore wind farm development is also covered.
- The risk appetite of different players that have entered the offshore wind market is also covered in the report.

Reasons to buy

- The reader can have an understanding on changing dynamics in offshore wind farm funding front.
- Overview on the entry of new players in the offshore wind market can be also looked through this report.
- Details on the strategic partnerships which giants in offshore wind farm development are entering into in order to get proper funding can be also skimmed through this report.

Original News: Offshore Wind Industry Require Players from Different Segments to Suffice Huge Capital Requirement

World Offshore Wind Market

The 4th edition of The World Offshore Wind Market Forecast, by energy business advisors Douglas-Westwood, examines drivers, case studies, key players, major markets and growth prospects for the global offshore wind sector. The report builds upon previous editions with the addition of comprehensive commercial analysis and a more detailed expenditure model.

Key features of the report

The rationale for offshore wind including discussion of climate change issues, related policy, as well as mainstream alternatives.
Description of an offshore wind development from start to finish, with all critical areas covered from surveying to operations and maintenance. Case studies and cost structures are included for the first time.
Discussion of all critical markets for offshore wind including the UK, Germany and China. For each country, information is provided on development to date, national policies and financial incentives.
An all new commercial insights section, which highlights emerging trends and potential bottlenecks in the emerging offshore wind sector. Discussion points include the increasing scale of offshore wind farms and vessel build programmes.
Historic data and five year forecasts covering the period from 2007 to 2016. A detailed comparison with the previous edition is included, highlighting development over the last year. Capital expenditures are broken down to a more granular level and operations and maintenance costs are included for the first time.

Offshore wind continues to ramp up
With more than 3GW of offshore wind capacity installed, and more than 2GW in the construction phase, offshore wind is becoming a mainstream renewable power generation sector. The supply chain is experiencing a period of growth and is becoming increasingly differentiated from the onshore wind industry. With offshore wind moving into an industrialisation phase, major new opportunities are becoming apparent.

Technology and market dynamics
Clear and concise background is provided, covering each sequential step in an offshore wind development. All market segments are covered including offshore wind turbines, foundations, array cables, export cables, offshore substations and their associated installation methods. For each segment, supply chain players and interrelationships are detailed, along with case studies.

Commercial insights
As the offshore wind sector enters a major growth phase, it is important to understand industry trends, potential constraints and implications. The commercial analysis in this section includes coverage of costs, development issues, supply chain, operational issues and new technologies.

Unique market forecasts
Using the same bottom-up modelling process, adopted for other reports in this series, the new offshore wind report presents a five-year market forecast for activity from 2012 to 2016. Five years historic data is also included for comparison.

With a decade of market modelling experience in this sector, DW maintains a comprehensive in-house database of projects worldwide. Each proposed offshore wind farm worldwide is assessed and unique and detailed market information given. All forecasts are based upon individual projects rather than estimations.

The report provides forecasts of annual Capex, Opex and installed capacity split by country, number, size and type of turbines, foundations, cables and substations. Market requirements for installation, operations and maintenance vessels are also provided, together with a new more granular breakdown of capital expenditure.

Why purchase this report?

Geared to meet senior executives’ needs in business planning and decision making
Access commercial analysis based on DW’s extensive in-house database of offshore wind projects
Find clear country-by-country analysis of key markets and the factors driving growth
Benefit from DW’s leading forecasting expertise developed and refined over many years
All data is presented clearly and accessibly.

Original News: World Offshore Wind Market Forecast 2012-2016

Bandera Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Power Plants and SWOT Analysis

The report contains a detailed description of the power generation company’s business operations, history, corporate strategy, and business structure. This report contains a detailed SWOT analysis, information on key employees (executives), and major products and services.

Scope

- Major Power Plants (assets) - summarized and detailed information about the power plants (assets).
- Operational Metrics (capacity, generation, revenue, sales, number of consumers).
- Business description - A detailed description of the company’s operations and business divisions.
- Corporate strategy - GlobalData’s summarization of the company’s business strategy.
- SWOT analysis - A detailed analysis of the company’s strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.
- Company history - Progression of key events associated with the company.
- Major products and services - A list of major products, services and brands
- Key employees - A list of the key executives and personnel heading key departments/functions.
- Executive biographies - A brief summary of the executives’ employment history.
- Financial deals - Coverage of key financial deals from 2006 onwards, depending upon information availability
- Important locations and subsidiaries - A list of key locations and subsidiaries of the company, including contact details.

* Note: Some sections may be missing if data is unavailable for the company.

Reasons to buy

- Gain key insights into the company for academic or business research purposes. Key elements such as SWOT analysis, corporate strategy and major products and services are incorporated in the profile to assist in various business decisions (M&A and JV).
- Identify potential customers and suppliers with this report’s analysis of the company’s business structure, operations, major products and services and business strategy.
- Understand and respond to competitors’ business structure and strategies with GlobalData’s detailed SWOT analysis. In this, the company’s core strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are analyzed, providing an up to date objective view of the company.  

Original News: Bandera Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Power Plants and SWOT Analysis, 2012 Update

Balance of Power Plant (Bop) Systems

To foresee the emerging market for BOP in India that will emerge out of the gap which exists between the huge demand coming from the accelerated capacity addition planning and capacity and capability of existing vendors in the coming decade covering 12th and 13th plan period

To spot the opportunity for the existing players in mergers and acquisitions/consolidation in the market and how they can go beyond from the traditional product/equipment offerings to become a complete service and solution provider to the utilities

To study the inevitability of imported products and solutions in light of timely completion of power projects and the value proposition they would bring with them ( mostly from Chinese and Korean companies)

To find out best practice in the industry so as to help the project developers in executing the BOP projects in terms of reducing the time and cost over runs in project management and contractual offerings

To bridge the gap of information lack by providing critical, authentic and reliable information on BOP players for strategic decision making and would serve the basic premise in selection of BOP players for project execution.

To strengthen the existing knowledgebase of BOP systems, process and procedures and overall know how of the power project management

Key Questions Addressed

Few vendors qualify for providing BOP for higher size units, is the capacity enough for such a huge demand?

What is the future action plan from the Govt as well as from the Private to enhance the capacity and capability of BOP island?

How much dependency is there for BOP imports from countries like China and Korea?

What is the policy push from Govt side to mitigate the upcoming crisis in the BOP sector?

With pipeline bulging with orders for the existing vendors, apprehensions are whether they can execute the projects in a time bound manner?

How can a new vendor enter into the market while minimum qualification for enter into bid process is at least execution of 2 projects of similar nature?

What holds back the developer for timely placement of orders in parallel to the BTG?

What is the overall cost of delay /loss to the utilities on account of delay in completion of projects?

How the contractual process may be streamlined to encourage new vendors to enter and incentivize existing vendors for timely execution of projects?

How standardization can help reduce the timeline and cost of the project?

What is the value of investment locked due to non-clearance of power projects by the environmental ministry?

What kind of policy push needed to address the concerns of BOP vendors in terms of mitigating the risks attached, ease of financing and capacity enhancement?

Can PPP ( Public Private Partnership) model be applied to power sector with private sectors executing the project on BOOT basis?

What is the overall outlook for BOP market in India in short to long term scenario?

Does it make economic sense for BOP players acquiring BTG skills for complete EPC turnkey solutions for power projects?  

Original News: Balance of Power Plant (Bop) Systems

UAE Power Sector Analysis

UAE is a rapidly growing economy whose electricity sector needs are anticipated to increase upto 50% in order to meet its growing demand for power, by the year 2020. UAE also has one of the highest levels of per capita power consumption across the globe. The electricity consumption in the UAE region is slated to cross 100 TWh by 2012, putting pressure on the supply side. In fact, the power demand is expected to increase at one of the highest rate in the Middle East region till 2020.

In 2011, more than 90% of total electricity generated came from thermal based sources in UAE, which is expected to reduce to 90% by 2015. Most of the power in UAE is fuelled by oil and natural gas. At the same time, government is also keen to develop renewable sources of power for future, included investment into nuclear based energy.

Government’s projections for investment into the UAE power sector are promising. The nation plans to invest more than US$ 50 Billion of funds in the sector till around 2015. In fact, till the year 2020, private sector is projected to be presented with an opportunity to invest upto US$ 100 Billion into the power generation sector.

Some of the prominent players in the UAE energy market are Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority and Federal Electricity and Water Authority. The seven Emirates in the UAE are catered by these four electricity and water authorities.  

Original News: UAE Power Sector Analysis

Top 10 Wind Turbine Manufacturing Companies

“Top 10 Wind Turbine Manufacturing Companies - Vestas Continues to Dominate as Emerging Chinese Players Provide Stiff Competition to Global Leaders”. The study, which is an offering from the company’s Energy Research Group, looks at the major global wind turbine manufacturing companies, including information on their growth strategies, as well as SWOT analyses and information on financial ratios and other areas of finance. It also highlights major product offerings. The report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GBI Research’s team of industry experts.

Scope

 - Overview of the global wind power market
 - Overview of the global wind turbine manufacturing industry
 - Information about the major wind turbine manufacturing companies
 - Comparative analysis of the major companies in the wind turbine manufacturing industry
 - Companies’ growth strategies and product offerings
 - Financial and SWOT analysis of the top 10 companies in the wind turbine manufacturing industry

Reasons to buy

 - Develop business strategies with the help of specific insights into the global wind turbine manufacturing industry
 - Identify the major companies in the global wind turbine manufacturing industry
 - Identify companies’ growth strategies and key product offerings
 - Identify companies’ strengths and weaknesses and potential opportunities and threats to the industry
 - Compare different companies in terms of critical parameters such as financials, important product offerings and countries of operation

Companies Mentioned

 Vestas Wind Systems A/S
 Sinovel Wind Group Co., Ltd.
 Xinjiang GoldWind Science & Technology Co. Ltd.
 Gamesa Corporación Tecnologica, S.A.
 Enercon GmbH
 GE Energy
 Suzlon Energy Limited
 Guodian United Power Technology Company Limited
 Siemens AG
 China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited

Original News: Top 10 Wind Turbine Manufacturing Companies - Vestas Continues to Dominate as Emerging Chinese Players Provide Stiff Competition to Global Leaders

Offshore Wind Cable Suppliers

"Offshore Wind Cable Suppliers - Profile and Project Overview” is the latest report from GlobalData, the industry analysis specialists that offer comprehensive information and understanding of major offshore wind cable suppliers. The report profiles five major cable suppliers for offshore wind market. Companies profiled in the report include ABB Ltd., Nexans S.A., nkt cables group GmbH, Prysmian S.p.A and Parker Hannifin Corporation. Company profile section covers details such as overview, company history, locations and subsidiaries, key employees, major products and services, information on competitors, company track record and future projects.

The report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData’s team of industry experts.

Scope

 - Profiles of five major offshore wind cable suppliers.
 - Companies include ABB Ltd., Nexans S.A., nkt cables group GmbH, Prysmian S.p.A and Parker Hannifin Corporation.
 - Company profile section covers details such as overview, company history, locations and subsidiaries, key employees, major products and services, information on competitors, company track record and future projects.

Reasons to buy

The report will enhance your decision making capability in a more rapid and time sensitive manner. It will allow you to -
 - Obtain up to date company information.
 - Access company's postioning in the market.
 - Identify key partners and business development avenues.
 - Understand and respond to your competitors’ business structure, strategy and prospects.

Companies Mentioned

 ABB Ltd.
 Nexans S.A.
 nkt cables group GmbH
 Prysmian S.p.A
 Parker Hannifin Corporation
 
For further information, please visit : Offshore Wind Cable Suppliers - Profile and Project Overview