Accelerating innovation to Net Zero: Offshore wind

How can we spur innovation to accelerate the route to Net Zero? Offshore wind has emerged as a success story in driving climate innovation. Find out how the Carbon Trust encourages innovation by bringing industry partners and competitors together to create the most optimal conditions for offshore wind markets to expand.

The Carbon Trust is a key partner and contributor to several global offshore wind industry programmes. 

Explore the industry-wide programmes

 

Explore our programmes

Discover more
North sea offshore wind farm

Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA)

The OWA is our flagship collaborative research, development and deployment programme, which aims to reduce the cost of offshore wind, overcome market barriers, develop industry best practice and trigger the development of new industry standards.
Floating offshore wind turbine

Floating Wind JIP

The Floating Wind Joint Industry Programme is a world leading collaborative research and development (R&D) initiative dedicated to overcoming technological challenges and advancing commercialisation of floating offshore wind.
Offshore wind-farm in sunset and clouds

Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) for Offshore Wind

ORJIP studies the impact of offshore wind farms in the marine environment, in order to reduce consenting risk for offshore wind farm developments.