Offshore Wind

O&M Landscape
 Outline
Types of owner and what they need
Lifecycle opportunities
Clusters
Opportunities / gaps / emerging needs
Offshore Wind Owners
 Active Owners
Objective:
Maximise profit and useful life of windfarm

Non-Active Owners
Objective:
Cost and income certainty over 15(?) years.
 Active Owners
Typically contract flexibly with OEM in warranty
phase, ensure off-ramps and tender for services
Often engage 3rd parties or in-house technicians
post warranty
Were born from frustration with service delivery,
cost and availabiltiy under OEM
Often contract directly for vessels of all types
Will they continue to grow in numbers?
 Non-Active Owners
Typically contract extended service contracts with
OEMs (10 15 years including warranty phase)
Will typically manage BoP through 3rd parties but
may wrap into WTG OEM contract
Were born from real/perceived financing
requirements and/or in immature markets
Rarely contract directly for vessels of all types
Will this be a sustainable model as experience
grows & price constraints increase?
 Surprises / hot spots
Blades
Foundations (grout/slippage, corrosion, scour)
OSP corrosion
Early life cable failures

Main component serial defects (3-4MW fleet)

 Yet to comerisks?
SOV and helicopter cost effectiveness.
Main components 6-8MW fleet
Technical performance of jacket foundations
Relative immaturity in Germany.implications
for future O&M approaches.
Changes in ownership
Continued lack of competition
 Clusters
Size is not all
Mix of owner types
Mix of lifecycle stages
Mix of O&M strategies
Distance from shore of each windfarm in the
cluster
Contractual ability to collaborate
Dong influence on clusters
 Cable repair
New products
Uncertain failure rates; work on-going via OREC
What is your offer.jointing? testing? Insurance
implications..
Vessels
Walk to work care to choose wisely, CTV experience
not great
Blades
Impact of leading edge erosion.where is this
heading? New thinking about maintenance strategy
Removal? Special tooling
Gearbox
What is your offer? Low level of annual failures in
existing fleet; uncertainty over scale of early life
issues in new fleet
Foundations
Market for improved inspection - desire for diver-
less solution
 Our common success
factors
Great HSSE
Production-focus
Target work towards low wind days
Bundle, plan, coordinate =
minimise downtime
Participate in daily planning
meeting
Delivery - Fix first time, service
on schedule, prevent future
failures
But what is a realistic availability target?
 Active Owner -
Contracting Strategy
Active ownership built into
contracts
WTG and BoP: separate contracts
Owners coordinate work and
manage site OEMS deliver work
and technical support
Single set of safety
rules (owner)
HV Management & OFTO
services
Vessels & marine
coordination
Asset management systems