TOU06 - Site Accessibility Simulator for Offshore Wind Farms

161 Chemin de Rigoumel
83200 Toulon

Approximately one third of total wind farm life cost are related to Operational Expenditures (OPEX) with a significant part related to vessels chartering and utilization to perform offshore maintenance activities. Due to their costs, vessels utilization rate needs to be optimized.  

Accessibility to offshore facilities will impact on the availability of offshore facilities and therefore on the final cost of energy production.
This challenge aims to create a simulator to calculate the accessibility for a given offshore wind farm site according to different types of vessel and intervention tasks.

A web-based simulator prototype able to calculate the accessibility of a given offshore wind farm month by month for the 5 coming years with minimum calculating time & resources.

● Data analyst/engineer (specialized in probability, statistics and time series prediction with uncertainty quantification)
● Metocean specialist (metocean data analysis, and interpretation, uncertainty of data, etc.)
● Statistician (data analysis, modeling with advanced statistical methods (e.g Markov chain, Monte Carlo, etc.))
● Web developer (for developing web based prototype)
● Creativity & problem-solving
● Project Management