Indicator-based Safety and Security Assessment of Offshore Wind Farms

Bearing in mind their exposed position and the rising importance for power provision, Offshore Wind Farms (OWFs) are facing a multitude of safety and also security threats. This leads to growing interest in methods for real-time and long-term assessment of the safety and security state of this type of infrastructure. Following this observation, we present the concept of a methodology for the indicator-based assessment of the security and safety of OWFs, which employs key performance indicators as well as key risk indicators. These indicators enable the online monitoring of the infrastructure, but also the exploration of its response to hazardous events - a fundamental requirement for resilience assessment. The applicability of the proposed technique is explored at hand of exemplary scenarios.