Short-Term Scheduling of Support Vessels in Wind Farm Maintenance

With the continuous negative impact of traditional energy sources, the emergence of new sustainable energy sources with many advantages is welcomed by society. Offshore wind energy is one of the most widely used sustainable energy sources. It has the advantages of cleanness, greenness, sustainability, low operating cost, and space-saving. Improperly planned maintenance operations on large vessels such as Service Operation Vessels (SOV) and Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV) can lead to a low-reliability maintenance plan and high fuel consumption. Therefore, planning offshore wind farms’ day-to-day operation and maintenance is crucial. This chapter contains a solution approach composed of different algorithms combined and applied to generate short-term scheduling of support vessels in wind farm maintenance using actual scenarios data. This set of models for supporting the short-term dispatch of ships in wind farms was tested and had their good performance proven. These models could be used to generate a reliable maintenance plan in a quick time.