Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) is a long-term business transformation programme that will promote closer collaboration across the supply chain, implement structured productivity improvement programmes and facilitate shared growth opportunities between developers and the supply chain.

Over the next ten years delivery will focus on direct support to supply chain companies through a combination of strategic capability assessment, advisory services and grant funding. ORE Catapult will be a main delivery partner with support of other companies in particular advisory strands. 

The UK offshore wind industry supply chain has the potential to grow significantly through increased sales into the growing UK market, and through exports. The economic analysis which underpins the Offshore Wind Sector Deal prospectus shows a global market of £33bn a year by 2030 with UK exports worth 2.6bn per year and 27,000 jobs by 2030 – a three-fold increase on today’s level.

The OWGP aims to maximise the economic benefits of the UK’s world-leading position in offshore wind by delivering increased productivity and competitiveness that will drive increased UK content into offshore windfarms in the rapidly growing global market as well as in the UK. The aerospace and automotive sectors have demonstrated the value that can be created from growth partnerships and the offshore wind sector is building on the lessons learned from these more mature sectors. OWGP will promote greater collaboration, increase business competitiveness, support greater innovation, attract new entrants and grow existing companies.

OWGP is a national programme and companies from all sectors and locations are encouraged to participate. The regional clusters developed as part of the Offshore Wind Sector Deal UK are an important link to engage with supply companies.

OWGP consists of four main strands:

Collaborating for Growth
Enhanced engagement between developers and supply chain to increase competitiveness and build capacity.

Business Competitiveness
An intensive structured business improvement programme to the existing supply chain with tailored support from specialist delivery partners to improve competitiveness.

Building New Capacity
Increasing the breadth of the UK supply chain by attracting cross-sector engagement and enabling new entrants to join sector.

Supply Chain Futures
Developing new innovations and UK intellectual property in areas such as robotics, advanced manufacturing, new materials and automation.

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