RenewableUK hands out 14 awards at fifth annual Global Offshore Wind ceremony in London
RenewableUK presented 14 awards at the Royal Lancaster London on 13 October 2026, with Ocean Winds, ScottishPower Renewables and RWE among the winners across projects, people and industry priorities.
RenewableUK presented 14 awards at the fifth annual Global Offshore Wind Awards ceremony, held at the Royal Lancaster London on 13 October 2026, with Ocean Winds (OW), ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) and RWE collecting multiple honours across projects, people and industry priorities[1].
The ceremony
Michael Shanks, Minister of State in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, appeared as guest speaker[1]. Winners were chosen by an expert panel of senior industry professionals and government figures, following what RenewableUK described as a record number of entries[1].
Projects category
The projects awards covered asset management, deal-making, digital innovation and supply chain:
- Asset Lifecycle Excellence - RWE and Greencoat UK Wind's Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm[1]
- Closing the Deal - East Anglia THREE (ScottishPower Renewables and Masdar) and Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm (Copenhagen Offshore Partners)[1]
- Excellence in Digital Innovation - Elecsys[1]
- Supply Chain Ingenuity - Venterra Group's V-LiDAR[1]
The Power in Collaboration award went to two initiatives: Ørsted and OEG's Apprentice Programme Collaboration, and the Circular Economy for the Wind Sector initiative led by ORE Catapult in partnership with RWE, TotalEnergies, Equinor, EDF, ScottishPower Renewables and The Crown Estate[1].
Industry priorities
Ocean Winds won the Community Impact in Offshore Wind award, while ScottishPower Renewables secured Inclusion in Action[1]. Environmental Excellence went to the BORA Blue Ocean Research Alliance, a joint initiative by Subsea7, Seaway7 and the National Oceanography Centre[1].
Cargostore Worldwide's LiftaLoo - described as the world's first single-point lift offshore welfare unit - won the People First award. DN Colleges Group's Green Energy Manufacturing initiative took Powering the Future Workforce[1].
Individual awards
The people categories produced the following winners:
- Apprentice of the Year - Madeleine Warburton, RWE[1]
- Future Leader - Lila Vazquez Villamor, Equinor[1]
- Hero Spotlight - Neil Elliott, RWE[1]
- Made It Happen Champion - Mark Hazelton, EDF Power Solutions[1]
What to watch
The record entry count signals that the industry's appetite for recognition - and the pipeline of projects and people behind it - has not thinned despite persistent cost pressures. The Closing the Deal category, which recognised both a large fixed-bottom project and a floating wind farm in the same year, is a marker worth tracking: floating wind remains the sector's most capital-intensive frontier, and award-level visibility for early movers tends to precede a wave of follow-on financing activity.
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