Ensuring the Security of Onshore and Offshore Wind Farms in the Context of War or Terrorism

Ivanov G. Poita Y.
June 2025 Nan Yang Academy of Sciences Pte. Ltd

Sustainable Marine Structures
2025 #7 Issue 2 45 - 62 pp.

Traditional fossil fuels powerplants and their supply logistics are easy targets compared to renewables – therefore renewable energy is paramount to securing energy resilience. While wind farms exhibit vulnerabilities, they provide a great measure of power generation distribution across a vast area. This paper analyses the problems of ensuring the security of wind power plants (both onshore and offshore) in relation to military threats – missile and aviation strikes, sabotage or cyber-attacks. The article is based on the study of cases of damage to wind power plants, an analysis of their vulnerable points, and computer modelling using the AQWA diffraction motion response analysis program. The research has shown that wind power plants have some vulnerable points. Onshore installations being structurally more resistant to potential military strikes, and their cables are already hidden underground. Offshore turbines, particularly floating, exhibit more Particularly floating wind turbines’ mooring lines and cables already often fail naturally, making them easy targets for sabotage. The cost of currently available risk mitigation measures ranges from 6.71% of total wind farm cost for land-based turbines to 12.72% for a floating wind farm. Additional technological and organisational measures should be implemented to increase the resilience of wind power systems in times of war. These solutions must be cost-effective to justify their deployment in times of peace.

Cyber Security , Energy Independence , Infrastructure Security , Military Conflict , Offshore Wind , Wind Energy

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Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106319, Taiwan
Department of Political Science and Political Technologies, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan

Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering
Department of Political Science and Political Technologies

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