O&M is crucial for offshore wind industry. In fact, last decade experience evidenced that accessibility rates have a significative impact over OPEX costs. Thus, O&M logistics will play a significative role in the cost of the energy produced by floating offshore wind farms because of the extra complexity added by the floating issue. Moreover, another extra of complexity of O&M is the wide variety of fails that need to be faced during the life span of the offshore wind farm.
Therefore, different support vessels, marine operations and port facilities will be required depending on the failure observed.
Usually, the O&M strategies are based on the definition of safety thresholds associated to specific metocean parameters (Hs, Wind intensity…). However, marine operations are usually highly non-linear processes where the risk assessment cannot relay over a simplified safety threshold definition. Understanding the interaction between the marine environment and floating structures is crucial for a safe operation of floating offshore wind farms. Nowadays, the digitalization of engineering is a reality. However, digital twins need to be coupled to reality through observations. Here is where Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Services (CMEMS), takes a great relevance. CMEMS is capable to provide short and long-term information, crucial for O&M at different stages: (1) Planification stage and (2) Operative stage
