Bentley Expedition: Dogger Bank ?

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Offshore wind seems to be kicking into gear in the UK. I wonder if Bentley isn't / shouldn't be putting together a 'tool chain ' for offshore wind turbines. 
 1. Plaxis Modeto for the turbine towers. 
 2. gINT, Soilvision, Keynetix for marine geology analysis? 
 3. SACS/MOSES for any offshore rig stuff 
 4. Undersea cable: Siemens ?? 
 5. Specialist vessel design: MaxSurf 
 6. Onshore battery / converter etc facility: the usual suspects 
 7. Artificial Island : OpenSite Designer with Plaxis?

Miquel Lahoz · Answer

Hi, Dominic, 
 Indeed, offshore wind is really taking off: from a research-driven curiosity, it is growing into one of the most competitive forms of energy in terms of price per MWh, well in track of becoming even cheaper than onshore wind . 
 Coincidently, the synergies that you refer to on your first post were recently covered in an article on the Digital Energy Journal , including the use of SACS, MOSES, and PLAXIS for the structural and geotechnical analysis of towers and foundations. The article also mentions the collaboration between Bentley and Siemens, the reality modelling of existing plant with ContextCapture, and asset performance management with AssetWise. It does not mention the use of gINT, SoilVision, and Keynetix for the subsurface modeling, but this is certainly a possible use case. 
 About one vs. multiple tools, mind that offshore wind is made of people coming from very diverse backgrounds, who bring to the table their different toolkits and ways of doing things. The industry owes its success precisely to this multi-disciplinary collaboration, and this is something we want to continue supporting. 
 Thus, the digital twin is being built progressively, by removing these frictions on the basis of technologies such as our Open Modeling Environment and Connected Data Environment . And with every new release we make our tools converge even more. Ultimately, the debate between using one or multiple tools should be purely commercial, because there will not be any difference in the data that will be generated. This is the true promise of the digital twin. 
 Best regards, 
 Miquel Lahoz

Phil Wade · Answer

Hi Dominic 
 Wind farms are taking off all over the world. Datgel has developed support for import/export of Orsted AGS4+, and import and presentation of thermal conductivity cones to support our offshore geotech users of Datgel's gINT Add-Ins. 
 Your list of products would be used by a wide range of engineers in different specialities, I don't think they would be sold as a pack. Bentley Systems offers the ELS to cover multi product needs of bigger engineering companies. Smaller companies can buy perpetual or term licenses of specific products. 
 cheers 
 Phil Wade 
 MD, Datgel

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