Automated daily maintenance planning for offshore wind farms

Clym Stock-Williams and Siddharth Krishna Swamy

Renewable Energy, 2019, vol. 133, issue C, 1393-1403

Abstract: Offshore wind farm managers and schedulers need to manage large numbers of wind turbine visits every day, in order to: repair minor faults; conduct inspections; and perform scheduled service operations. Daily schedules form a choice of which maintenance activities to conduct, taking account of: constraints on weather conditions, shifts, vessel and technician capabilities and availability; and the impact of activities on wind farm profitability. This forms a formidable optimisation challenge that today is solved “by hand” by a scheduler.

Keywords: Optimisation; Genetic algorithms; Offshore wind farms; Daily maintenance; Operations & maintenance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2018.08.112

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