Ocean Winds: "Wind farms don't just appear."
Beyond Energy — a serialised explainer turning the consenting process into something an audience can actually follow.
Turn consenting into something a non-expert can follow.
The Ocean Winds team had a problem most offshore developers share: the audience genuinely doesn't understand how a wind farm goes from idea to operational. The consenting layer especially — Development Consent Orders, EIA, AppendixSEA — is a wall of jargon for anyone outside the industry.
The brief was to explain the work without dumbing it down. Audience: investors, regulators, communities, and future hires. Tone: confident, plain, properly informed.
Three OW spokespeople. One question per episode. No scripts.
We built a four-episode arc — each answering one specific question the audience actually asks. Filmed at OW's Edinburgh and Madrid offices with leadership across stakeholder engagement, consenting, and operations.
Each episode runs 5-6 minutes — long enough to take the audience seriously, short enough to finish. Series cuts run on LinkedIn weekly; full episodes anchor the OW Beyond Energy hub.
03 Outcome
Now the explainer Ocean Winds links from every stakeholder deck.
"It's the first explainer film we've had that actually explains. Not corporate fluff. Real OW people, real questions, real answers."
Series picked up by industry press; used in OW investor materials and at WindEurope 2026 partner stand.