3.3. Outputs
The generic principle of the outputs sections is to calculate each
output specifically for each simulation and then averaging these
outputs when all the simulations are completed. Since, multiple
simulations are run in order to cover all possible situations such as
bad weather and good weather years, high number and low
number of failures, etc., the outputs associated with each scenario
will vary. By running a sufficiently large number of simulations,
the average results will converge to a final value and the variability
across simulations will provide a measure of uncertainty. The
methodology provides major outputs such as availability, power
production, vessel utilisation, mean time to repair values, and cost
attributes in order to support the decision making process. This is
required because, making the decision only by considering one
attribute (i.e. costs) may lead the offshore wind farm developers to
wrong directions. In this context, the developed methodology
provides outputs under 5 different main output sections as listed
below