Resilient Recovery Features of Offshore Wind Farm with Maintenance Service

Abstract

This work discusses the maintenance of Offshore Wind Farms in the context of resilience. Therefore, the relation between the system response to disruptions due to severe weather conditions and redundancy of operating vessels is analyzed. The study is executed using an appropriate simulation model, which employs reported component failures rates and real weather data. The obtained results indicate that redundancy of maintenance vessels has no effect on the robustness against severe weather conditions, but a considerable impact during the recovery phase.