From Greenfield to Detailed Engineering: Building on Experience and Knowledge

October 8, 2025 Articles & PR | Offshore 6 min read time

C2Wind and Youwind are showcasing how their respective approaches combined help close the gap between greenfield and engineering design within the Offshore wind energy industry.

Anyone who’s spent time in wind energy knows the sector has its fair share of recurring pain points. The tricky part isn’t spotting them, it’s solving them. For Youwind and C2Wind, though, those challenges have never been roadblocks. They’ve always been seen as opportunities. Both companies were started by engineers who noticed the same gap in offshore wind development and decided to tackle it, each in their own way.

Two Companies, One Goal

Youwind was founded in year 2018 by engineers Anna Rivera and Edvald Edvaldsson, who saw first-hand the inefficiencies slowing early-stage offshore wind development after years working in major wind energy companies.

C2Wind was created by a team of experienced offshore and onshore wind professionals active in the industry since 2003. Having worked through every phase of wind farm development – especially in detailed design- they had a clear view of recurring bottlenecks.

They identified several persistent issues:

A gap between the early Greenfield phase and the advanced Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) stage.

No common framework for what constitutes “good enough” data to start FEED.

Limited traceability across the multiple design loops that occur during development.

Each company developed solutions in its own way:

Youwind built a web-based platform to accelerate early-stage offshore (and onshore) wind development, combining advanced engineering modelling, GIS, and financial modelling into a single high-speed environment.

C2Wind developed an integrated engineering consultancy, covering all aspects from wind resource and energy yield, site conditions assessment, load effect analysis, foundation design, certification, and fabrication + installation support, supported by validated data and proprietary tools to reduce risk and cost.

Though their approaches differ, the objective is the same: creating a smoother transition from early design to detailed engineering, with traceability and clear guidelines throug

Complementary Strengths

For C2Wind, Youwind’s technology helps developers with early-stage screening capability in a structured way, this is always an advantage when engaging in FEED studies.

For Youwind, feedback from a consultancy with such deep practical experience ensures the platform’s outputs meet the quality required in advanced phases.

“The gap between development phases has often been a real pain point. Youwind’s technology helps developers take the very first steps of wind development on their own and support them with defining more detailed engineering design more smoothly”, says Rémi Gandoin, Senior Specialist and Product Development Manager, C2Wind

From Greenfield to FEED in Practice

In practice, Youwind’s web-based analytics interfaces with C2Wind’s engineering design capabilities via a simple import/export function, providing:

A clearer framework for starting FEED.

End-to-end traceability of design loops.

A smoother handover from early-stage work to detailed engineering deliverables.

For developers, this means:

Practical, documented criteria for data quality before FEED.

Traceability of every design change.

A structured flow of datasets into Site Assessment Conditions tasks, supporting third-party due diligence.

A cleaner transition from feasibility studies to detailed per-position design.

A full-spectrum evaluation, from initial screening to engineering validation.

This approach addresses one of the most persistent gaps in offshore wind, helping improve coordination, shorten timelines, and strengthen the foundations for financing, permitting, and execution.

Looking Ahead

“We are proud to work alongside the best consultancies in the wind industry to fix real-life problems and boost their analytical capabilities”, says Anna Rivera Jové, Co-founder & CEO, Youwind

The experience of C2Wind and Youwind shows how different types of expertise, when applied together, can make wind farm development faster, more reliable, and better connected across phases.

Written by the Youwind Content Team

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