WILLOW Project EU

WILLOW "Wholistic And Integrated Digital Tools for Extended Lifetime and Profitability of Offshore Wind Farms" is a project funded by the European Union. WILLOW integrated system will provide an open-source, data-driven smart curtailment solution to the Wind Farm Operators with the basis of an integrated Wind Farm Control system looking for a trade-off between the power production and the lifetime consumption. With this aim, WILLOW pretends to design a novel Structural Health Monitoring System able to provide high quality data to perform a reliable fleet life assessment using physical models and AI methods which will be used for decision-making and maintenance scheduling. This will contribute to the reduction of the LCOE and to the increase of the AEP towards the current trend of design and operating life of offshore wind farms with up to 20 MW turbines beyond 50 years.