The First Taiwan Made Work-Class ROV Monew Accomplishes the Seabed Scanning of the Taiwan Strait Offshore Wind Farm

Taiwan offshore wind farm’s new local and world-wild subsea partner – DWTEK, has set a new record and now plays an important role in the offshore maritime industry supply chain.




Taiwan imported 98% of its energy from foreign countries for many years, but not anymore. In 2019 Bureau of Energy released the Policy of Offshore Wind in Taiwan, the policy identified the opportunities for offshore wind energies in Taiwan Strait, and the renewable plan brings light to solving the energy shortage problem on the island. Ever since, the construction started in 2019 and will end approximately around 2025, so far, the so-called "world's best wind farms" has already installed more than 200 wind turbines and keep going, this achievement is thanks to
international developers and investors. But now the problem arises, who has the capability to continue the local offshore wind farms' maintenance and other tasks? Will the local companies be enough to fulfill the huge maintenance operations? The hardest part of this plan is the localization. Lacking a sufficient supply chain has always been a problem, importing services to support the supply chain is not a long-term goal, and this will cause a consequence of loss of money.



DWTEK Co. Ltd., the Taiwanese underwater tech developer, last month achieved in supporting the local offshore wind farm surveying by sending the ‘Made-In-Taiwan’ working-class ROV Monew to the west side of Taiwan Strait and accomplished the mission with supplier R2Sonic. Set a perfect example, to prove DWTEK has the capacity to supply a turnkey solution to support the offshore maritime industry, and now plays an important role in Taiwan's offshore wind farm supply chain.



The DWTEK Working-Class ROV Monew’s debut made it the first ‘Made-in-Taiwan’ ROV to support its home offshore wind service, the overall scanning and inspection was accompanied by the equipment installed in Monew: special R2Sonic Sonar 2024 multibeam echosounder, navigation sonar, a USBL underwater positioning, and DWTEK self-developed high-resolution cameras and eleven DWT 135D4 thrusters. The mission duration was around two weeks,
DWTEK deployed a six personnel team, and with its offshore service vessel Sunny Bright, the mission non-stoply executed the task on the sea, with no docked to refuel, or return to port for resupply, which was a big breakthrough for Taiwan's offshore sector, and truly time and money saving.

The construction of offshore wind farms is what the Taiwan people's expression says ‘Earn the money according to the weather, which describes a certain type of occupation that needs to rely on the weather to have a gain. When the offshore wind farm construction only has two to three months to work during the Summer, make the project a racing game against time. Localization becomes essential, with a team formed like DWTEK which can be fully mobilizable, is the best choice for Taiwan offshore wind farm developers.

Location: Taiwan