Offshore wind has been placed as a major player in the renewable energy transition. However, a new phase of the industry's lifecycle is now arriving, and it's one policy hasn't fully caught up with yet, that being “decommissioning”.

The natural environment provides us with a plethora of ecosystem services: These include regulating the climate, releasing oxygen we breathe and providing medicinal benefits to name a few. Nature is arguably the greatest innovator; we can examine how nature has evolved to overcome various problems and apply this to solve human design challenges.