How to develop the grouping strategy for offshore wind turbines at the wind farm level

Reliability and maintenance issues of offshore wind turbines are demanding due to lack of proven experience at hand. Grouping strategy is one of the possible ways to enhance the reliability of the offshore wind turbines. It has been outlined how to optimize the maintenance tasks based on the age and conditions of the components to group them together. The attempt has been made to address the certain issues and challenges pertaining to the set up costs, criteria for travel from one turbine to another, heuristics development, and exploiting the opportunities. In the current work, it has been proposed how to develop the optimal operational strategies based on the grouping technique. It is expected that realization of the propose approach would help in reducing the overall operational costs in a significant way for the offshore wind turbines and making them a more attractive and viable option for the investors.