Helping Make Gains at Every Project Phase
The team at Barrington Energy has a detailed understanding of both the technical and commercial aspects of offshore wind. This fully rounded expertise means we are able to create bespoke, financially optimal solutions for each of the projects we work on. As needed, our clients can choose elements (either in isolation or in combination) from an extensive menu of consultancy and management services. Barrington Energy offers work packages across every phase of the project lifecycle, helping achieve both efficiency and budgetary gains in areas as diverse as feasibility and contracts, tendering and installation, and operations and risk management.
Our Services, Which Can Be Commissioned Either in Isolation or As Part of An Integrated Package:
Procurement and Contract Negotiation
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- Preparation of pre-qualification documents
- Preparation of tender documents, including detailed employer’s requirements (ERs)
- Maximising client benefit through assertive management of the tender process
- Tender analysis and reporting
- Negotiation of both the commercial and technical aspects of contracts
Project Package and Contract Management
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- Project and technical management, including ensuring compliance to ERs, and creating and reviewing technical documents for:-
- Foundations
- Cables
- Wind Turbines
- O&M
- Contract management including enforcing terms, dealing with claims, and variation management
- Budget control
- Project controls, including risk management and interface management
Operations, Assets and Marine Management
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- Marine logistic planning for construction and operations
- Marine coordination
- Vessel selection
- O&M strategy development
- O&M base set up
- Maintenance planning and generation optimisation
- Control system set up
- Spare strategies
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Services for the Development Phase
| WTG Supply & Service | WTG T&I | Foundations | Foundations T&I | Cable Supply | Cable T&I | Project Controls | Onshore Substation | Offshore Substation | Offshore Substation T&I | O&M | Pre-Assembly Yard | Vessels | |
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| Package Management | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Project Tender Packs | | | | | | | | | | | |||
| Project Planning | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Contract Management | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Design Management | | | | | | | | |
Getting a Client Back on Track
With a production capacity of 450MW, this offshore wind development in Asia featured monopile/transition piece foundations, direct drive WTGs with power being exported via 66kV subsea cables to the onshore 154kV boost substation. Barrington Energy’s client had originally contracted an established renewables consultancy to provide Owners Engineer (OE) services for the development, which included producing Employer’s Requirements and creating a complete Invitation to Tender process. It was clear once this work package was completed that the consultancy had not delivered on their obligations or understood the Asian offshore wind market.
Barrington Energy was asked to step in and cover this scope of work at short notice, as well as operate according to a timeline that had of necessity been cut in half. We not only met the challenging deadline, but also managed to deliver excellent outcomes in all areas of work, as well as create cost efficiencies for the project overall. We continue to support this client on a long-term Frame Agreement.
Services for the Construction Phase
| WTG Supply & Service | WTG T&I | Foundations | Foundations T&I | Cable Supply | Cable T&I | Project Controls | Onshore Substation | Offshore Substation | Offshore Substation T&I | O&M | Pre-Assembly Yard | Vessels | |
| Contract Management | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Package Management | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Commissioning Management | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Risk Management | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Project Planning | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Construction Execution Plan and Associated Documentation | | | | | | | | | | | |
Helping a Newcomer Take Control
This offshore project in Asia (the first to be constructed in this particular country) comprised the construction, operation and maintenance of twin bottom-fixed windfarms. The sites’ combined production capacity is 140 megawatts, and development included the installation of transmission lines and an onshore substation. Coming onto the project two years in, and with the client clearly struggling as a newcomer to develop a project at this scale, Barrington Energy was unafraid to take the initiative. A range of logistical simplifications included realigning the tender process; we also created an O&M protocol with no native precedent, reshaped the supply chain by supporting new joint ventures, and developed the main suite of EPCI contracts. Barrington also achieved major concessions with OEM contracts, as well as successfully challenging existing local legislation as a means to keep different aspects of the project viable. We also played an instrumental role in the achievement of Final Investment Decision and Financial Close milestones.
Post Financial Close, Barrington Energy continued to support the project through the design phase, then some three years later, through Construction to Commercial Operation; we continue to undertake leading roles in the project organisation, including Project Management, Package Managers covering WTGs, Foundations, Client Representatives and O&M. We take particular pride in being an integral part of the team that helped to deliver the first commercial offshore wind farm in this country.
Services for the Operations Phase
| WTG Supply & Service | WTG T&I | Foundations | Foundations T&I | Cable Supply | Cable T&I | Project Controls | Onshore Substation | Offshore Substation | Offshore Substation T&I | O&M | Pre-Assembly Yard | Vessels | |
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| Maintenance Planning and Generation Optimisation | | ||||||||||||
| Spare Strategies | |
Helping Fast-Track Sign Off
An established global offshore wind developer approached Barrington Energy to provide support for a new project in Asia. The site comprises direct-drive WTGs with four-legged jacket foundations, all interlinked with 66 kilovolt sub-sea cables that connect to an onshore substation complete with Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). The developer invited us to tender for work that included reviewing the draft annual operational budget, undertaking gap analysis on information provided by their prospective main contractors, reviewing their manning plan for the operation phases of the project, and producing a viable plan for asset life extension.
Having successfully won the tender, Barrington also helped fast-track this work scope, helping achieve LTA sign off for the O&M phase of the project approval process for the lender process, as well as helping achieve key operational changes and subsequent savings for the development overall.
Services for the Decommissioning Phase
| WTG Supply & Service | WTG T&I | Foundations | Foundations T&I | Cable Supply | Cable T&I | Project Controls | Onshore Substation | Offshore Substation | Offshore Substation T&I | O&M | Pre-Assembly Yard | Vessels | |
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| Decommissioning Plan and Associated Documentation | | | | | |
The Skills to Conduct an Expert Review
Barrington Energy tendered and were awarded a decommissioning scope with a developer in Scotland, for the review of existing decommissioning documentation for an extensive 1 GW windfarm planned to be constructed off the east coast of Scotland. The work scope involved a wide range of elements, all of which aim at ensuring alignment to both the operator’s internal requirements and those of Marine Scotland.
Leveraging our pre-existing knowledge of the project (we had already carried out detailed reviews of other aspects of the operator’s documentation), Barrington Energy proposed that the scope of work would need to include, among other things, meetings with key decommissioning stakeholders (consents, design, finance), a specific focus on alignment for the decommissioning cost, and planning to help ensure the operator’s financial security. We delivered the work scope and subsequently it has been approved by Marine Scotland – a milestone that must be passed for the project to progress. Since then, the developer has also awarded us a three-year Owners Engineer Framework.
