Evaluate the Production Availability of an Offshore Wind Farm with a MBSA Model

TotalEnergies is a major player in the energy transition. All collaborators are mindful of the issues related to a just transition raised by our activities and our own transformation to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, together with society, and they are providing concrete answers. To achieve this, the company has itself the following objectives: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible, in the operations for which it is directly responsible;Offset all remaining emissions, for example through CO2 capture projects;At the same time, propose an energy mix that is less and less carbon intensive with the development of renewable energies (solar, hydrogen, wind, etc.). To enhance energy mix, from 2022 onwards, new offshore wind farm projects will emerge close to consumption grids and raise new questions which the Offshore Wind industry is preparing to tackle. To this end, Reliability Availability Maintainability (RAM) studies can help to define the best Operation and Maintenance (O&M) strategy to apply i.e., the one allowing to reach the optimum between OPerating EXpenditure (OPEX) and production availability [1] for a given farm's design.