Shoreline Improves Its Offshore Wind O&M Software

Shoreline has made Balance of Plant (BoP) O&M modelling available within its MAINSYS™ tool, which includes foundations, inter array cabling, and substations.

The tool allows choosing and placing BoP components and model failure, their service and associated cost, as well as defining interdependencies between wind turbines, inter array cables and substations. The company has also added a weather randomiser to the software.

“The enhanced economical modelling capabilities include detailed key performance indicators such as marine logistics cost, manning, spare prats and repair cost, BoP cost, and the OPEX can be broken down in cost per MW, MWh and actual cost per year and month. These features will allow the user to simulate and analyse an even broader variety of O&M strategies in details, optimise vessel spreads, port locations, resource utilization and maintenance approach, in a fast, efficient and transparent manner,” Shoreline said.

In June 2015, Shoreline was contracted by Statoil to simulate and investigate alternative strategies for marine logistics and manning during the operational phase of an offshore wind project using MAINTSYS.

The company was also awarded a contract in December 2015 to use its software for the build-up of virtual wind farm layouts, and simulation and analysis at the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm, considering various marine logistic and manning concepts including CTV, SOV, SES, HLV and helicopters.