The global wind market is set for exponential growth over the next few years. The industry is changing, and we understand the challenges facing the sector.
Airswift has proven experience in supporting TSOs, developers and contractors for numerous offshore wind jobs and projects throughout the world.
We have successfully placed both permanent and contract personnel across a wide range of wind energy disciplines. These include engineering, QHSE, project controls and SCM, geotechnical and project management.
Our dedicated team of consultants are able to support clients throughout the whole project lifecycle. This includes the areas of cable engineering, offshore installation, fabrication and inspection, commissioning and O&M.
Along with our talent acquisition offering, our unrivalled global footprint and extensive global mobility services allow us to support clients with a full turnkey solution to their project resourcing requirements.
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Airswift’s global offices present a key advantage to our clients. With over 60 strategic global offices, we are equipped to deliver the best talents in the renewable energy industry.
Airswift’s global offices present a key advantage to our clients. With over 60 strategic, global offices we are equipped to assist clients, deliver on key projects, in the renewable energy industry. Our in-country teams are available to provide key workforce solutions for renewables projects across the globe.
Our talent acquisition teams focus on dedicated disciplines and verticals. This gives them a detailed understanding of hiring manager requirements. This ensures that projects are staffed on time, compliantly and within budget.
The services we provide include:
For projects that require international human resources, our Global Employment & Mobility services deliver:
Are you using multiple offshore wind recruitment companies and witnessing escalating hiring costs? Our in-house sourcing solutions can help!
We offer an embedded recruitment process outsourcing service on or near-site. Our recruiters become immersed in your culture and engage in your hiring process on a long term basis. An on-site managed solution can reduce cost and time-per-hire without compromising quality.
Managed solutions and recruiting services:
As a leading renewable energy employment company for four decades, Airswift truly understands energy labour markets.
Our consultancy services help offshore wind clients plan their talent pipeline:
Every year, Airswift co-produces an annual employment trends and benchmarking report.
GETI is a consultancy report for managers and professionals in the energy sector. The report focuses on oil and gas, renewables, power, nuclear and petrochemicals.
As the European and Asian Offshore Wind markets continue to grow, Airswift are proud to be the chosen workforce solutions partner to a growing list of Developers, Manufacturers and Service Companies across this exciting industry.
Our focus is on ensuring that our clients are supported across the entire project lifecycle, from early phases of development, through to construction and finally, project completion.
We continue to compliantly support clients in a wide range of locations and project settings, including design/site offices, fabrication/manufacturing sites and throughout offshore scopes of work.
Our global footprint and multiple service lines also enable Airswift to assist clients with Global Mobility and GEO Services, as they transition their workforces and project scopes to new locations.
The global offshore wind market is set for exponential growth over the next few years. Here are a few countries pioneering in large scale offshore wind projects.
China has identified wind resources as a vital growth factor for the country’s economy. In 2016, China expanded its wind power generation capacity by 19.3 GW and generated 241 TWh of electricity. This represented 4% of the nation’s total electricity consumption. By 2030, China aims to produce 50% of its energy from non-fossil sources, such as nuclear and renewable sources.
Indonesia has an approximate total potential of 9.3 GW for onshore wind power. It is estimated that almost 85% of wind energy potential in the country is in the Nusa Tenggara, Java-Bali and Sulawesi regions. Indonesia aims to install 1.8 GW of wind capacity by 2025, with capacity factors estimated at 20-30%.
Wind power supplies a growing proportion of Japan’s electricity consumption. In 2017, the country’s total installed capacity for wind power hit 3,399 MW, which included 64.4 MW of offshore capacity. It has been estimated that Japan has the potential for 608 GW of offshore wind capacity.
The government in Korea places focus on wind energy as a clear energy resource. It also acknowledges potential to replace nuclear power and fossil fuels with wind power. It has gradually increased new installations, and the total wind power capacity was 1,035 MW in 2017. Korea plans to increase renewable energy’s share of the country’s electric power system to 20% by 2030.
Malaysia has many renewable energy sources with potential to be developed, such as wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and hydro.
Singapore’s largest wind turbine was built in 2017. This marked the first time that wind energy was used to power the island’s energy needs. The turbine can generate power with wind speeds as low as 3m per second.
The UAE has been a driving force in the funding of overseas wind power. Wind power plays an important part in the UAE’s key renewable energy projects. It aims to achieve a sustainable infrastructure for power generation through renewable energy sources in the long term.
Renewable energy projects remain prevalent in the region. This is partly due to the growing demand for water and electricity and the rise in population.
The United Kingdom has more offshore wind capacity than anywhere else in the world. It has 37 projects made up of almost 2,000 wind turbines. There is almost 8GW of capacity in the UK, of which 1.3GW was added in 2018.
More than 50% of wind capacity in the US is located across Texas, California, Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma. Texas produces the most wind power of any US state. In 2017, wind power accounted for at least 15.7% of the electricity generated in the state.
In the West Coast, Californian wind energy accounted for 29% of the state’s renewable energy production in 2018. What’s more, water consumption savings as a result of wind projects in California total more than 3.4 billion gallons per annum.
Renewable energy is a minor, but growing, competitor in Vietnam’s electricity sector. The total capacity of installed wind power expected to reach 800MW in 2020, 2000MW in 2025 and 6000MW in 2030. This will account for 0.8% of the produced electricity share in 2020, 1% in 2025 and 2.1% in 2030.
Airswift is the offshore wind staffing agency of choice for world-leading energy businesses.
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