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Operations and maintenance
Successful performance of O&M is most critically dependent on service teams being able to access the wind farm as and when needed. Good progress has been made on this in recent years and accessibility has improved significantly. This has been achieved by incremental improvements in:
- Vessels used
- Landing stages on the wind turbine structures
- Procedures
Future offshore wind farms offer new access challenges, being larger and much further offshore. This will result in increased use of helicopters for transferring service crews, larger vessels to give fast comfortable transit from port to site, and the use of offshore accommodation platforms, combined with evolution of strategies to perform O&M.
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