The Government, through the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, has in the Roadmap - The Green Industrial Initiative stated that Norway will become a leading nation in offshore wind with an industry that develops and builds state-of-the-art wind power solutions. Its ambition is to allocate areas with a potential for 30 gigawatts of offshore wind production on the Norwegian continental shelf by 2040.
To exploit the winds at sea, robust infrastructure is required in addition to turbines with foundations. Each individual foundation is estimated to have a concrete volume of around 5,000 m3 and 1,500 tons of reinforcement.