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.