A Navigational Risk Assessment Method for Offshore Wind Farms

Offshore wind power is a clean energy that has been developing rapidly over the past decade in China.Compared with onshore wind power,it has several advantages including no occupancy of land space,abundance in wind resource and suitability of large-scale development.However,offshore wind farms(OWFs)inevitably endanger safety of navigation of ships.This paper provided a literature review of the state of the art on risk assessment of OWF,and proposed a novel mathematical method for navigational risk assessment(NRA),which has been applied in the assessment of an OWF.