Towards the Blockchain-Enabled Offshore Wind Energy Supply Chain

While the technology of offshore wind production is more or less mature, there are still many issues to be solved for mass production and deployment of wind farms at reasonable costs. Hence, one of the challenging topics in developing a supply-chain strategy of offshore wind energy is efficiency on the one hand and meeting the requirements of stability, flexibility, and adaptability from market, technology and policy perspectives on the other. Supply-chain management of offshore wind energy requires processing a large amount of data and effective traceability and visibility. Blockchain as a fresh technology could provide the solution for interoperability and collaboration among a number of suppliers dispersed all over the world. This paper seeks to discuss the opportunities of blockchain technology in upstream, midstream and downstream of offshore wind energy.