Operation and maintenance cost estimator (OMCE) to estimate the future Oampersand M costs of offshore wind farms
conference paper
The operation and maintenance (O&M) costs of offshore wind farms contribute significantly to the energy generation costs. Reliable estimates of these costs are required during planning and operation of the wind farm at several stages. Such estimates however have a large spread and are uncertain. ECN is developing the O&M Cost Estimator (OMCE) with which owners and operators of offshore wind farms are able to better estimate and control the future O&M costs for the next coming 1 to 5 years. The OMCE uses data and experience generated by the wind farm under consideration during the first years of operation. The OMCE consists of so called OMCE Building Blocks in which large amounts of data generated by the wind farm, such as O&M data, data from SCADA systems, or data from (load) measurements and condition monitoring are being processed into useful information. Fur-thermore the OMCE consists of the so called OMCE-Calculator which is the core of the OMCE, which uses the output of the building blocks to make cost estimates for the next 1, 2, or 5 years.
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TNO Identifier
821591
Publisher
ECN
Source title
European Offshore Wind 2009 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 14-16 september 2009.
Collation
12 p.
Place of publication
Petten
Pages
12 p.
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