Our Team - Deep Wind Offshore

International offshore wind developer

Deep Wind Offshore is an international developer and owner of offshore wind projects, backed by industrial and financial owners. The company counts more than 50 experienced employees within key industry disciplines.

The company has a proven track-record in development of floating and bottom fixed projects, so far with local presence in Norway, South Korea, and Sweden. As an early mover in new markets the company continues to explore areas and mature projects.

Deep Wind Offshore has a project pipeline of more than 10 GW, with 2 GW under exclusive development in South Korea.

The business model is based on joint ownership with strong partners, with established partnerships in South Korea with bp and in Norway with EDF Renewables.

International developer and owner of offshore wind farms

Early mover with experienced team in new markets

Maturing projects and enabling strong partnerships

Our strategy

Deep Wind Offshore has a project pipeline of more than 10 GW, on track to deliver 10 TWh of clean electricity within 10 years.

10 GW pipeline

10 TWH net capacity

10 years

The team

The company counts more than 50 employees within key industry disciplines with project development experience and expertise from the energy and offshore sectors.

Driven by sustainability and efficiency, we embrace cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to enhance performance, reduce costs, and minimize environmental impacts.

Working collaboratively across departments and offices, the Deep Wind Offshore team is committed to setting new standards in the industry, fostering a sustainable future through renewable energy advancements.

Management

Knut Vassbotn and Hans Petter Øvrevik founded the company back in 2020.

With more than 20 years' experience from the industry, the founders have facilitated some of the first floating wind projects in US and been involved in floating wind projects in South Korea, Scotland and other European countries

Passionate

The management are passionate about industrialising offshore wind and making offshore wind a commercial success in Norway and Internationally. To achieve this they continually push Deep Wind Offshore to develop projects with scale and open up new markets.

Board

Board member

Partha Vasudev

Board member

Knut Vassbotn (CEO)

Board member

Hans Petter Øvrevik (CCO)

Board observer

Cliff Pullen

Chair

Geir Tore Henriksen

Vice-chair

Mariann Salvesen

Board member

Jorunn Seglem

Board member

Magne Rommetveit

Board member

Kjetil Harestad

Owners

Deep Wind Offshore is backed by strong industrial and financial owners with a long history and solid track record from developing industrial projects.

Knutsen OAS

Knutsen Group is a fully integrated shipping company with operation, newbuilding supervision, chartering and project development in-house. The Company is the largest shuttle tanker operator in the world, and a major operator of LNG carriers. Knutsen Group has offices all across the world and has a strong presence in South-Korea.

Haugaland Kraft

Haugaland Kraft is a leading Norwegian utility and technology company. Their main activities are the production, transmission, and sales of electrical power, as well as the development and operation of optical fibre grids. Haugaland Kraft and its subsidiaries have ambitions to become one of Norway’ s leading producers of renewable energy.

SKL

Sunnhordland Kraftlag (SKL) is one of Norway’s larger renewable energy producers. The company is based in the western part of Norway, and has a portfolio of several TWh produced from impoundment hydropower facilities. SKL also owns a hydrogen company, with an aim to develop hydrogen from renewable hydropower.

Octopus Energy Generation

Octopus Energy Generation is one of Europe’s largest renewable energy investors, managing £6bn of green energy projects across the globe. The generation arm of Octopus Energy Group, the global energy tech pioneer.

Who we are

International offshore wind developer

International developer and owner of offshore wind farms

Early mover with experienced team in new markets

Maturing projects and enabling strong partnerships

We make clean electricity and empower coastal communities by harnessing the ocean winds