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The public-facing layer of the platform. Built on open data, written in plain English, open to anyone who wants to understand how offshore wind actually works.
Offshore wind is complex. The conversation about it, in the media, in the pub, on social, is not. Headlines move faster than facts. Numbers get quoted without context. The same few questions come up again and again, and the answers the public gets are almost always wrong.
L1 exists to close that gap. A structured, verified, open reference for every commercial wind farm worldwide, the operators and developers behind them, the ports that build and service them, and the countries and grids they connect into. Alongside the data, plain-English explainers on the questions the public actually asks. It is free. It requires no login. It is open to everyone.
L1 is built on open data. Public registers, government open-data portals, and sector-published information, cross-referenced and kept current. Named source anchors include the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Crown Estate open data, EMODnet, and national regulator publications. The platform is honest about what it uses and where it comes from.
What is on the platform
Free tools, open to anyone
Platform Hero
EOS WindSim™
The immersive 3D environment at the heart of the platform. Fly through offshore wind farms at scale, see live weather, watch vessels at work, and understand what you are looking at without needing a technical background. Covers 1,500+ commercial wind farms worldwide.
Immersive 3D
1,500+ wind farms
Live weather overlay
Global coverage
Interactive
Global
A 3D globe wind farm explorer. Browse every commercial offshore wind farm in the world by region, developer, operator, or status. See the shape of the global sector at a glance.
3D globe
Wind farm explorer
Market data
Information
Country
Country profiles covering pipeline, installed capacity, regulatory regime, grid operator, and market framework. A one-page read for anyone wanting to understand a national offshore wind market.
Country profiles
Regulatory summary
Market data
Dashboards
Energy Dashboards
Plain-English views of what the UK grid is actually doing. Physical notifications versus actual generation, the current generation mix, and headline curtailment numbers. The data behind the debate, without the spin.
PN vs actual
Generation mix
Curtailment
Live Tracking
AIS Vessel Tracking
Live vessel positions around offshore wind farms. Crew Transfer Vessels, Service Operation Vessels, Commissioning SOVs. See the offshore workforce at work, in real time.
Live positions
CTV / SOV / CSOV
Fleet activity
Dashboard
Weather Operations
Weather windows, seven-day forecasts, and wave heights at each wind farm. The same conditions the operators watch every morning, open to the public.
CTV windows
7-day forecast
Wave height
Directory
Supply Chain Directory
A free, open directory of the companies building and servicing offshore wind. Developers, operators, OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers. Searchable by category, region, and project. The deeper insight layer lives in L2, the open browse lives here.
Developers
OEMs
Tier 1 / Tier 2
Who uses L1. Public · Education · Academia · Developers · Operators · Investors · Journalists · Policy makers · The whole industry.
Questions the public actually asks
Honest answers to the questions that keep getting asked badly
Offshore wind carries a public conversation that rarely matches what is happening at sea. Four questions come up again and again, and the answers people get are almost always missing context. L1 carries a plain-English explainer library built around them, with short answers up front and the full picture underneath for anyone who wants to keep reading.
Why is the turbine off on a windy day?
The wind hitting a blade and a turbine generating electricity are not the same thing. A turbine might be stopped because the grid has asked it to stop, because there is nowhere for the electricity to go, because prices are negative, or because a crew is working on it. "Off on a windy day" is almost never a fault. It is almost always a decision.
What does curtailment actually mean?
Curtailment is the grid paying a wind farm to not generate, because the electricity cannot physically get to where it is needed. The cost lands on bill payers. The cause is a transmission network that has not been built fast enough. The blame often lands on the wind farm, which is the wrong end of the story.
Who actually owns the wind farm near me?
Offshore wind ownership is layered. Developers build, operators run, investors fund, and OFTOs own the transmission link. A single wind farm often has half a dozen entities with a stake. L1 maps them all, project by project.
What do the cables do, and where do they go?
An offshore wind farm needs three cable systems to reach your home. Inter-array cables between turbines, export cables from the offshore substation to shore, and the onshore connection to the grid. Each one is engineered, buried, and monitored. And each one is a bottleneck when the grid cannot keep up.
Open data, named sources
Credibility through transparency
L1 is an open data platform. That is a deliberate design choice, not a limitation. Paywalled sector intelligence has served a narrow audience well for a long time, and done nothing for the wider conversation around offshore wind. Building on open data means the platform can be checked, challenged, and improved by anyone who wants to look.
Named source anchors include the UK Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Crown Estate open data, EMODnet, ENTSO-E transparency data, and national regulator publications. The platform cross-references, structures, and keeps these sources current. Where data is uncertain or contested, the platform says so.
STEM Workstream
EOS WindSim™ for schools
A separate, ongoing workstream is building a STEM edition of EOS WindSim™ for classroom use. It takes the same 3D environment that professionals use in the sector, and repurposes it for 11 to 16 year olds learning about the energy transition. If you would like to support it, host a session, or help bring it to schools in your region, get in touch.
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For Sponsors and Advertisers
Display inventory at the public layer
L1 carries display advertising for sponsors who want to reach a public, education, and wider-industry audience around the energy transition. If reaching a mixed public and professional readership is part of your brand strategy, L1 is the right layer of the platform to be on. Targeting is handled at L2 and L3 where the audience is a qualified working-sector one.
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Veritas omnibus patet, truth is open to all.
L1 is free, forever. The commercial model for EOS Omnia™ sits in L2 (qualified audience at scale) and L3 (contracted business packages, from £5,000 per year). L1 stays open, because an open sector needs an open foundation. If you would like to explore the deeper layers, see L2 Insight and L3 Intelligence.