A meeting on the project “Decision support for offshore wind turbine installation” (informally known as DECOFF) has been held at Christian Michelsen Research (CMR) in Bergen.
The objective of the project is to develop methods for improved decision support when installing wind turbines offshore, where the cost to a large degree is driven by waiting for weather windows.
A main idea is to base the decisions on the expected responses of the equipment being used, rather than directly on the forecasted weather. The equipment simulator SIMO, developed by MARINTEK, is used to translate forecasted weather into expected equipment response.
The topic of the day was statistical modelling of the probability of failed installations for different weather forecasts. Aalborg University’s PhD student Tomas Gintautas and professor John Dalsgaard Sørensen have the main expertise in this field.
Gintautas presented some of his results, and there was a fruitful discussion about how the modelling should be implemented into the decision support system.
The DECOFF is a KPN project supported by the Norwegian Research Council and Statoil. The research partners except MARINTEK are also partners in NORCOWE.
Image: NORCOWE