18
Figure 5-6 Number of firms with activities in OWP and PV in different regions.
Source:
Data from survey and
proff.no5.1.3
Related industries
To further explore firm characteristics and given the potential importance of related industries for
development of new ones we were interested in the extent and nature of links between related
industries and OWP and PV.
Figure 5-7depicts the industry in which firms have their core business
areas. For both industries we observe that a majority of firms have their core activity in other industries
than OWP and PV. This is particularly evident for OWP, with only 18 per cent of firms having OWP as
their core activity. The majority of the OWP firms have core activities in
maritime
industries,
other
industries including engineering and design, as well as
oil & gas
. We should here add that many of the
maritime firms are oriented towards oil and gas. For PV the share of firms having PV as a main activity
is larger, but 57 per cent of firms have their core business activity in
buildings and construction, industry
and materials
and
energy
.
Figure 5-7 Respondents’ primary industry
Source:
Data from survey and desk research
Figure 5-8shows the relationship between OWP firms’ primary industry and their place in the supply
chain for OWP
4 .The first thing to note is that the firms with
offshore wind
as the primary industry is a
diverse group as we can observe these firms across the entire supply chain. Moreover, we can see that
firms in the
oil & gas
industry deliver products and services to most of the categories in the supply
chain. We find most of these firms in
foundations
,
logistics
and
operations & maintenance
. When we
4 The use of Sankey diagrams to display industry diversification was inspired by (Weaver & Steen 2013).
Solar PV
43 %
Buildings
and
construc-
tion
19 %
Industry
and
Materials
16 %
Energy
10 %
Other
12 %
PV respondents' primary industry
Offshore
wind
18 %
Oil & Gas
18 %
Maritime
26 %
Electrical
infrastructure
6 %
Other
renewables
8 %
Other
25 %
OWP respondents' primary industry