The offshore wind industry faces a range of practical challenges which do not fall into distinct category of opportunity  "Logistics” will however be absolutely essential if more fixed and floating turbines is to be deployed and run smoothly at scale.

This is especially so in the Celtic Sea region which lacks mature infrastructure for offshore energy but will require a range of enabling expertise in:

- Haulage eg of aggregates

- Vessels

- Anchor storage

- Crew transfer

- Personnel provision

- Specialist Training

- Cranage

- Draft reduction technologies

- Wet storage

Many of these services are likely to require local know-how and may even provide a strong starting point for ambitious companies to expand into this new market. Not easy to evaluate but there is high potential for regional economic benefit to be derived in logistical and operational services to enable FLOW.