O&M modeling of offshore wind farms — State of the art and future developments

In this paper the state of the art in O&M models for O&M cost estimation of offshore wind farms is discussed and then, a case study for O&M cost estimation of an 800 MW reference offshore wind farm is given. Moreover, a framework for an ideal O&M strategy optimizer to achieve the maximum possible O&M costs reduction during operational years of an offshore wind farm is described and recommendations are given.