Supply Chain Study on the Danish Offshore Wind Industry

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2.3 Politics and Interest OrganizationsThe Danish Wind Turbine Industry early recognized the importance of getting influence on thepolitical and knowledge area of the Danish society.This gave a strong incitement to support necessary Interest Organizations, who could take partin the public discussions and investigations on the area. The work of the Interest Organizationscombined with an open attitude toward society from the Wind Industry, gave good results inGovernmental and public understandings to the Wind Turbine needs.This resulted in a supporting Governmental practice and a supporting attitude from the Danishpopulation on subsidiary and placing areas for the turbines. Here lays an important reason forthe ongoing success for the Danish wind turbine industry: Governmental support and overallsupport from the Danish population.The interest organizations, which played an important part in the success, were:• Energistyrelsen - Danish Energy Authority (www.ens.dk)• Vindmølleindustrien - Danish Wind Industry Association (www.windpower.org)• Danmarks Vindmølleforening - Danish Wind Turbine Owners Association (www.dkvind.dk)• Offshore Center Danmark (www.offshorecenter.dk)2.4 The Danish Offshore IndustryConsidering Offshore Wind Turbines, the traditional offshore Oil and Gas industries becomesinteresting. These two areas in fact are closely connected, and have a common interest insharing knowledge and products.But while the offshore wind industry is closely related to the traditional wind industry and itsmass production, the oil and gas industry is more single project orientated. This is two differentproduction cultures, and for many years, the two industry areas lived separated and withoutnatural contact.This has changed. Due to the large offshore wind turbine projects, the wind industry looked tothe oil and gas industry, and the oil and gas industry saw new and interesting markets. A newand interesting approach between the two industries has become a reality.In this process, the interest organizations have played an important role with their open-mindedview on things and traditions. The offshore interest organization Offshore Center Danmarkplayed a considerable role in this process, and has taken the new market area under its wings.The Danish oil and gas manufacturing and service industry has many years of experience onthe offshore matters, and this knowledge is available for the wind turbine industry.It is thus relevant with some basic statistics for this industry as an addition to section 2.2. TheDanish offshore industry is concentrated in the county of Ribe and in particular the Danishoffshore capital Esbjerg.POWER / <strong>Supply</strong> <strong>Chain</strong> <strong>Study</strong> Denmark Page 4OFFSHORE CENTER DANMARKNiels Bohrs Vej 6DK-6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
A study conducted by Fisheries and Maritime Museum/Center for Maritime and Regional Historyin 1999-2001 provided the following figures about the offshore industry:• 93 % of all offshore companies in the county of Ribe (approximately 200) are located inEsbjerg.• In the County of Ribe, turnover from offshore activities is estimated to 620 million Euro.• A minimum of 3.500 people are employed within the offshore oil and gas industry in theCounty of Ribe.3. <strong>Supply</strong> <strong>Chain</strong> in a globalized world3.1 GlobalizationThe <strong>Supply</strong> <strong>Chain</strong> <strong>Study</strong> for the Offshore Wind Turbine industry in Denmark shows aremarkable impact from the New World Order: Globalization. The globalization means free andcheap exchange between the worlds leading countries of a large numbers of important industryhardware and services.In general, the globalization is depending on a number of important factors, but two areas are tobe highlighted:• The IT revolution with its easy and safe world wide communication. IT makes it possible tofind and communicate to world wide deliveries, and IT supports the necessary world widenetworking.• Cheap deep sea transports, which makes the whole world an open end exclusivemarketplace with free competition.The globalization works in three areas for the Danish Wind Turbine Industry:• On import of industry hardware and services.• On export of the manufactured offshore wind turbines.• On outsourcing manufacturing to other countries.The Danish Wind Turbine Industry has taken the challenges and is working in the world wideeconomics on buying, selling, outsourcing and manufacturing. This is seen by the Danish WindTurbine Industries and is one important key to its success.3.2 PoliticsThe ordinary competition on price and quality is still an important and a leading factor in alloffshore Wind Turbine projects. But the impact from the fast and steady going Globalizationmakes new and important focus areas: politics.It is necessary for the Wind Turbine Industry to deal with local and foreign politics. The politicson subsidies, rules and infrastructure is in fact hard to handle. For instance Politics on subsidiesand rules over night can open or close a marked. The industry can not deal with this area alone,and are forced to take Governmental contact serious, for opening markets and harmonizingrules. This again means that the industry is forced to take contact to and join InterestOrganizations such as The Danish Wind Industry Association and Danish Wind Turbine OwnersAssociation.This is seen by the Danish Wind Turbine Industries, and is another important key to its success.POWER / <strong>Supply</strong> <strong>Chain</strong> <strong>Study</strong> Denmark Page 5OFFSHORE CENTER DANMARKNiels Bohrs Vej 6DK-6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
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