Event Overview
We’ll be launching the Wind Insight 2026 alongside our updated UK Offshore Wind Farm Development Processes Guidelines.
UK offshore wind: the next chapter
Join us in May for our next breakfast briefings, where we’ll look at the trends reshaping the global and UK offshore wind landscape in 2026. This is your chance to get ahead of a rapidly evolving market – with clear, confident insight into where projects, investment and policy are really heading.
If you want the facts, the forecasts and the forces shaping the next decade of UK offshore wind, this is the event you can’t afford to miss.
We’ll be launching the Wind Insight 2026 alongside our updated UK Offshore Wind Farm Development Processes Guidelines. You’ll gain a global perspective on the shifting pipeline of projects, UK market dynamics and outcomes of the 7th Contract for Difference (AR7) offshore wind auction.
The launch will take place in two locations (Aberdeen & London):
Aberdeen 6th of May– Capability & Capacity
This breakfast will focus on the readiness of the Scottish supply chain and what’s needed to capture opportunities coming through ScotWind and INTOG.
The breakfast will be co-chaired by Enrique Cornejo, Energy Policy Director, Offshore Energies UK and Susan McDonald, Energy Transition Lead, Deloitte.
Our speakers and panellists include:
- Ben Andrew, Global Engineering Director – Renewables, 2H, Acteon’s Engineering Consultancy
- TBA, Flotation Energy
- Gordon Farmer, Board Director, Global
- Adam Morrison, UK and Ireland Country Manager, Ocean Winds
- Thibaut Cheret, Wind & Renewables Manager, Offshore Energies UK
- Derek Christie, Government Affairs Scotland and UK Locations, Siemens Energy
This breakfast will provide Insight Into:
- Trends in the global and UK offshore wind markets and market drivers
- Project pipeline clarity – Risk-adjusted project outlooks
- Grid reform, Transmission Network Use of System Charges (TNUoS) impacts and curtailment challenges
- The long-term price and policy picture beyond 2030
- The role of homegrown energy supporting resilience, industrial capability and long-term growth
This event is ideal for:
- Energy industry leaders
- Supply chain companies navigating the transition
- Policymakers shaping energy and industrial strategy
- Investors evaluating UK and Scottish pipelines
- Professionals across manufacturing, fabrication, ports, marine and project delivery
Through this breakfast briefing, you’ll gain a grounded understanding of how offshore wind can drive investment, protect jobs and deliver the reliable, homegrown energy system the UK needs.
