Offshore wind

    Commissioning software for scopes that repeat a hundred times over open water.

    An offshore wind farm is the same commissioning scope executed across many near-identical assets, in a place with no reliable connectivity and a very short weather window. That combination is what the system has to be built for.

    ARRAY A — TURBINE COMMISSIONINGWTG-01EnergisedWTG-02EnergisedWTG-03Pre-commWTG-04Awaiting tripOffshore substationEvery turbine carries its own record set — completed offshore, synced when the vessel regains signal.

    The problem

    Repetition plus poor connectivity plus weather windows.

    Every turbine needs the same evidence, technicians are offshore with no signal, and the transfer window is measured in hours. Paper-based execution loses time exactly where there is none to lose.

    WEATHER WINDOWMonSailableTueSailableWedNo transferThuNo transferFriSailableSatNo transferSunNo transferWHAT HAPPENS TO THE PAPERWORKTest done offshoreNo signal at the turbinePaper returns to shoreTwo days later, by vesselTyped into a trackerRe-keyed, some sheets missingDay 0Day 2Day 4Offline capture on the tablet closes the four-day gap to zero.

    The same forms, hundreds of times

    Identical checksheets are recreated per asset, and consolidating them into fleet-level progress is a manual job every week.

    No connectivity at the point of work

    Technicians work inside nacelles and substations where cloud tools simply do not reach.

    Short windows, expensive vessels

    A return trip for a missed signature or an unrecorded defect costs a vessel day, not an afternoon.

    Fleet status is opaque

    Which turbines are actually ready for energisation and takeover is reconstructed from several trackers.

    How it runs

    One template, many assets.

    1. 01

      Define once

      Build the record set for a single turbine type and substation scope.

    2. 02

      Apply across the fleet

      Instantiate the same structure per asset so every turbine carries identical evidence.

    3. 03

      Execute offshore

      Technicians complete records and raise punch offline on tablet during the window.

    4. 04

      Track to takeover

      Fleet-level readiness by turbine and string, with certificates issued as each is proven.

    ARRAY STATUS — 24 TURBINES010203040506070809101112131415161718192021222324EnergisedIn pre-commissioningAwaiting vessel trip

    Side by side

    Paper offshore versus offline digital.

    The decisive factor offshore is whether a record can be completed and proven without a connection and without a second trip.

    Paper offshore versus offline digital.
    AspectPaper and scansDeskely
    Execution offshorePaper packs carried out and scanned back onshore.Tablet records completed offline, synced on return.
    Fleet progressConsolidated manually from per-turbine files.Rolled up automatically by turbine and string.
    Missed evidenceDiscovered onshore, costing a return trip.Mandatory fields flagged before the technician leaves the asset.
    Defect captureNotes and phone photos reconciled later.Raised at the asset with photos attached to the record.
    Takeover packAssembled per turbine at the end.Complete per asset as soon as the records are signed.

    What changes

    Offline

    execution inside nacelles and substations

    Templated

    record sets applied across every asset

    Fleet-wide

    readiness by turbine, string and substation

    Fewer trips

    through validation before the technician leaves

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    FAQ

    Questions about offshore wind.

    Project types

    The same completions model, from a monopile to a converter station.

    What changes between wind scopes is the shape of the asset breakdown, the gate that matters and who signs. The record types, the certification ladder and the audit trail behind them do not.

    01

    Fixed-bottom wind farms

    A fixed-bottom offshore wind farm is one record set executed across every monopile, transition piece, tower, nacelle and blade set in the array. Deskely defines that record set once, instantiates it per asset, and reports readiness by turbine, string and array.

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    02

    Floating offshore wind

    Floating wind moves the assembly work back to the quayside and adds a hull, a mooring spread and a dynamic cable to the completions scope. Deskely keeps the quayside evidence attached to the unit through tow-out, hook-up and energisation.

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    03

    Offshore substations and platforms

    An offshore substation is a small process platform with switchgear instead of separators: transformers, GIS, protection, auxiliary power, HVAC, fire and gas and marine systems. It is commissioned like a topsides scope and it gates the entire wind farm.

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    04

    Array and export cables

    Cables are installed by a marine spread that demobilises quickly, and tested by specialists in stages. Deskely holds the load-out, lay, burial, pull-in, termination and testing evidence against the section it belongs to, so acceptance is a query rather than an archive search.

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    05

    HVDC converter stations

    HVDC converter stations carry valve halls, cooling systems, control and protection, harmonic filters and auxiliary plant, tested in a sequence that runs for years. Deskely keeps every subsystem, FAT, SAT and system test under one register the TSO can audit.

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    06

    Onshore substations and grid connection

    Landfall, onshore cable route, the onshore substation and the point of connection are usually delivered by different contractors against a grid connection date that cannot move. Deskely holds the whole onshore chain in one register with the connection conditions as gates.

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    07

    Turbine installation and pre-assembly campaigns

    An installation campaign is a logistics problem with an evidence problem attached: components staged at a marshalling port, lifted by a vessel in a weather window, and mechanically completed by crews who are already on the next asset. Deskely keeps the record with the component.

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    08

    Takeover, warranty and major component replacement

    After takeover, the same register carries end-of-warranty inspections, defect claims and major component replacement campaigns. Deskely keeps the construction evidence and the operating evidence in one place, which is what makes a warranty claim provable.

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    09

    Onshore wind farms

    Onshore wind has the same repeated record set as offshore, spread across a site with civils, collector cabling, a substation and increasingly a battery system. Deskely templates the turbine record set and gates energisation on evidence.

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