A Decision Support System for Decommissioning of Offshore Windfarms: The Data Platform

This paper presents a data protocol for storing the information which are required for the planning of windfarms decommissioning. The data protocol is the base of a decision support system software tool which allows its user to define various decommissioning scenarios and to evaluate them against cost, risk, and environmental impact measures. The protocol categorises the data into four categories, namely, windfarm, site, logistics and legislations. It is generic, flexible, expandable and easy to handle by the software and its user. The capabilities of the data protocol have been illustrated through a number of examples.