Current status and future trends in the operation and maintenance of offshore wind turbines: A review

G Rinaldi, PR Thies, L Johanning - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Operation and maintenance constitute a substantial share of the lifecycle expenditures of an
offshore renewable energy farm. A noteworthy number of methods and techniques have …

Incorporating stochastic operation and maintenance models into the techno-economic analysis of floating offshore wind farms

G Rinaldi, A Garcia-Teruel, H Jeffrey, PR Thies… - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Floating offshore wind is rapidly gaining traction in deep water locations. As with all new
technologies, to gain the confidence of developers and investors, the technical and …

Computationally efficient analytical O&M model for strategic decision-making in offshore renewable energy systems

M Centeno-Telleria, JI Aizpurua, M Penalba - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
To boost the deployment of all offshore renewable energy technologies, it is fundamental to
adopt convenient long-term strategic operation and maintenance (O&M) decisions. Due to …

The use of artificial intelligence methods to assess the effectiveness of lean maintenance concept implementation in manufacturing enterprises

K Antosz, L Pasko, A Gola - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The increase in the performance and effectiveness of maintenance processes is a
continuous aim of production enterprises. The elimination of unexpected failures, which …

Floating Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converters: A Review of Developments

DN Konispoliatis - Journal of Energy and Power Technology, 2024 - lidsen.com
The main challenge in designing offshore renewable energy structures is to ensure their
structural integrity on a life cycle basis while operating in harsh environments and, in …

Impact of operations and maintenance on the energy production of floating offshore wind farms across the North Sea and the Iberian Peninsula

M Centeno-Telleria, H Yue, J Carrol, M Penalba… - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates how operation and maintenance (O&M) factors affect energy
production and optimal deployment sites for floating offshore wind farms (FOWs) in the North …

[HTML][HTML] Resilience of wave energy farms using metocean dependent failure rates and repair operations

M Göteman, Z Shahroozi, C Stavropoulou… - Ocean …, 2023 - Elsevier
Emerging offshore renewable energy technologies are expected to become an important
part of the future energy system, and reliability for these new technologies in different …

Downsizing the linear PM generator in wave energy conversion for improved economic feasibility

J Tan, X Wang, H Polinder, AJ Laguna… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - mdpi.com
A crucial part of wave energy converters (WECs) is the power take-off (PTO) mechanism,
and PTO sizing has been shown to have a considerable impact on the levelized cost of …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle assessment of a point-absorber wave energy array

S Pennock, MM Vanegas-Cantarero, T Bloise-Thomaz… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Wave energy has a large global resource and thus a great potential to contribute to low-
carbon energy systems. This study quantifies the environmental impacts of a 10 MW array of …

O&M-aware techno-economic assessment for floating offshore wind farms: A geospatial evaluation off the North Sea and the Iberian Peninsula

M Centeno-Telleria, H Yue, J Carrol, JI Aizpurua… - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The development of accurate techno-economic models is crucial to boost the
commercialisation of floating offshore wind farms. However, conventional techno-economic …