Offshore Wind Turbines clearly presents the facts and figures of wind turbine operation and maintenance in the inclement offshore environment.

Peter Tavner is Emeritus Professor of New and Renewable Energy at the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at Durham University. He has received an MA from Cambridge (1969), a PhD from Southampton (1978) and a DSc from Durham (2012) Universities. He has held senior positions in the manufacturing industry, including Group Technical Director of FKI Energy Technology, an international business manufacturing wind turbines, electrical machines and drives in Europe. He has also been Principal Investigator of the EPSRC Supergen Wind Consortium and Sino-British Future Renewable Energy Network Systems (FRENS) Consortium. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, President of the European Academy of Wind Energy and a Non-Executive Director of Wind Technologies, a Cambridge University spin-out company. He is a winner of the Institution Premium of the IET.

• Chapter 1: Overview of offshore wind development


• Chapter 2: Reliability theory relevant to offshore wind turbines


• Chapter 3: Practical wind turbine reliability


• Chapter 4: Effects of wind turbine configuration on reliability


• Chapter 5: Design and testing for wind turbine availability


• Chapter 6: Effect of reliability on offshore availability


• Chapter 7: Monitoring wind turbines


• Chapter 8: Maintenance for offshore wind turbines


• Chapter 9: Conclusions


• Appendices