- Developing risk-based maintenance strategies for critical offshore wind subsystems

- Qualifying digital twin technologies based on optimal feature selection

- Impact assessment frameworks for effective decision support frameworks

- Maintenance strategy provisions for service life extension

- What are the different challenges to overcome for Operating and Maintaining floating offshore wind?

- How can de-risking O&M early improve the project business case?

- What lessons can we learn from current offshore wind O&M delivery?

- How is the industry coming together to tackle these challenges?

- What key environmental and operational considerations when gauging turbine scalability 

- Do large turbines influence the cost/benefit potential? What can be done to mitigate this?

- What are the operational & maintenance risks when deploying larger turbines? How do we become risk averse here?

- What challenges have arisen from using larger turbines?

The challenges of operating and maintaining offshore wind assets emphasise the fundamentally interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of offshore O&M. The complexities that must be addressed arise because the wind industry exemplifies the interactivist rather than extractivist paradigm of energy generation, relying on a sustainable interaction with the environment rather than an unsustainable exploitation of it. 

This presentation session will discuss how the representation of the wind itself should be suitable for a fully de-siloed, digitally integrated workflow. Considering how it should be an object which is compatible with other digital objects represented in the workflow and captures the inherent complexity of prevailing wind conditions, rather than a primitive scalar whose data type is an artefact of historic limitations in measurement that no longer apply.

This session will showcase the innovative solutions leading the market from our industry trailblazers. Each presenter will only have 10 minutes to demonstrate their innovation.

Once all have presented, the conference chair will lead a moderated live Q&A to give delegates the chance to ask our speakers any and all questions they may have.

- Global offshore wind O&M spend has been increasing 18% annually, exceeding 20 billion USD by 2030.

- Larger portion of the O&M spend will be made on turbine maintenance, however the fixed cost base of the O&M spend is increasing as more capacity comes online.

- Our asset-level benchmarking shows that turbine rated capacity and distance to shore are two of the most important O&M cost drivers

- The European O&M market moves towards in-house concepts, mainly driven by cost pressure.

As turbine blades have crossed the 100m mark and are continuing to increase in size, mechanical testing becomes both more important and more challenging. This presentation session will discuss: 

- Challenges and solutions for segmented testing of blades

- Advances in 1:1 dual axis testing

- Sub-component testing as part of the certification scheme

- New test infrastructure for blades longer than 115m

- What are the existing turbine storage requirements? Do ports have sufficient capacity?

- Where are the biggest roadblocks when it comes to turbine access and transportation, and how can this be rectified? 

- How can installation processes evolve to reduce pressures on demand and service, particularly as turbine scalability shifts?

- With offshore wind projects expanding in their number and scale, how can ports ensure they are front and centre in this development?