Abstract

An offshore wind farm is, among other things, a fleet of near-identical machines - a hundred or more turbines on identical foundations, joined by identical cables installed by the same contractor using the same method within the same season. That identity is the source of the industry's efficiency and, when something is wrong, of its most expensive disputes: a defect in one grouted connection, one weld procedure, one cable-protection system or one cable-lay method is rarely confined to one unit. This article treats the resulting serial defect as a problem of dispute-resolution ...