Installation, Operation, and Maintenance Strategies to Reduce the Cost of Offshore Wind Energy.

摘要

This report is intended to provide offshore wind industry stakeholders a basis for evaluating potential cost saving installation, operation, and maintenance (IO&M) strategies and technologies. The work was completed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and its subcontractor, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), in fulfillment of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contract for subtopic 5.3: Optimized Installation, Operation, and Maintenance Strategies under topic 5: Optimized Infrastructure and Operations of Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) number DE-FOA-0000414, entitled U.S. Offshore Wind: Removing Market Barriers. For stakeholders carrying out project-specific evaluations of IO&M approaches presented herein, several related studies also conducted under this FOA will serve as valuable resources on specific aspects of offshore wind development infrastructure including ports, vessels, and supply chain parameters.