Offshore-Wind Cable and Asset Protection

Offshore-wind farms depend on cables, turbines, transmission systems, and other assets that must withstand corrosion, fatigue, biofouling, faults, and changing marine conditions.

Work in this area combines line-differential protection, acoustic and sensor-based monitoring, artificial intelligence, anomaly detection, and lifetime prediction with ecological studies of organisms colonizing dynamic cables and mooring structures. Projects such as BIODHYL and WILLOW illustrate the field’s dual focus: improving infrastructure reliability while understanding how offshore assets interact with Atlantic, Mediterranean, and North Sea environments.