Evaluating the cost effectiveness of logistic strategies for onshore monopile handling in marshalling ports

The global ever growing energy demand, quest for renewable alternatives for fossil fuels and desire to reduce dependency on single countries has driven the increasing demand for offshore wind energy production. The advancing technologies that enable offshore wind turbines to gain efficiency go hand in hand with increasing sizes of components and...

Supply Chain Simulation of Offshore Wind Farm Monopile Installation: Performance of different supply chain configurations under dynamic weather influences

A monopile installation project consists of the whole process of loading monopiles to vessels, transporting monopiles to the wind farm and drilling monopiles in the seabed. Each installation project has different characteristics as the weather at the installation location, the distances to the suppliers and the vessels that are available differ...

Cost-effectivity of logistical strategies for the installation of offshore wind turbine substructures

The ever-increasing size of offshore wind turbine substructures and the development of wind farms at sites further offshore, with greater water depths and with extremer weather conditions, raise logistical challenges that have never been faced before. Additionally, the offshore wind industry has to deal with governments cutting subsidies, small...

An Offshore Port concept to reduce the Construction costs in offshore wind farm projects: By an analyses on the Market developments, Workability and Financial performances

In the 25 years of existence, the offshore wind market has developed on many aspects. Among others, the dimension of the turbines increased by a factor 15 and the distance to shore increased by a factor of 50. The developments of the offshore wind farms increase the requirements for the installation vessels and as a consequence the present day...

Test bench for short decision support for logistical operations of offshore wind farm

Operations & Maintenance (O&M) contributes to about 25% of the total offshore wind farm costs which is rather large. It also influences the levelised production cost per kWh over the entire lifetime of the wind farm. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the costs involved in O&M activities. One such activity is the logistics involved...