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Investigating Key Decision Problems to Optimize the Operation and Maintenance Strategy of Offshore Wind Farms

Abstract

This paper investigates three decision problems with potential to optimize operation and maintenance and logistics strategies for offshore wind farms: the timing of pre-determined jack-up vessel campaigns; selection of crew transfer vessel fleet; and timing of annual services. These problems are compared both in terms of potential cost reduction and the stochastic variability and associated uncertainty of the outcome. Pre-determined jack-up vessel campaigns appear to have a high cost reduction potential but also a higher stochastic variability than the other decision problems. The paper also demonstrates the benefits and difficulties of considering problems together rather than solving them in isolation.
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Category

Academic article

Client

  • EC/FP7 / 614020
  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 193823

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Energy Research / Energisystemer
  • University College Cork

Year

2016

Published in

Energy Procedia

ISSN

1876-6102

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

94

Page(s)

261 - 268

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