The floating offshore wind industry is a little too young for disruption, but that is exactly what the Spanish startup X1 Wind has in mind. The company is leveraging its MIT pedigree to pitch a high performance floating turbine platform that could cut manufacturing and installation costs while solving the offshore industry’s looming labor shortage issues, to boot.
Looming Labor Shortage Haunts Offshore Wind Industry
If there is an offshore wind labor shortage, the pandemic is not the culprit. As with the trucking industry and various industrial sectors, maritime industries have an aging, mostly male workforce that is bumping up against recruitment issues.
