Injecting offshore wind power into the grid: Readiness looking back on the past few decades since the global beginning

Since the introduction of the Vindeby offshore wind farm in Denmark in 1991, the industry has made a journey of over three decades. The last two decades have witnessed a significant impact on global cumulative development. An interdisciplinary engineering par excellence, the relatively new green technology has the potential to tackle climate change and, in the course of further expansion. As experience grows, so does the maturity in knowledge and technology in the offshore wind industry, which has an interest in both industry and academia in the culmination of research and implementation. This paper briefly reviews some of the critical aspects of offshore wind power since its inception in 1991, based on the related works, current trends based upon related works, and European wind farms’ open-source data for the period of 2000-2017. The paper highlights the importance of understanding the overall aspects of offshore wind development and the interface from the grid stability point of view when India is undergoing significant injection in the upcoming years.