© 2018 IEEE. Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) installations offshore will have significant challenges for operation, inspection, repair, maintenance and intervention activities beyond those for onshore renewable energy farms. To minimise operating expenses (opex) MRE installations must rely on remote monitoring and control (remote presence) with limited human intervention in the field. This paper presents an overview of the long-term, ROV deployment approach for remote monitoring and inspection of distributed assets within the offshore MRE farm, and focuses on one of the critical subsystems: the development of an autonomous offshore garaging system for an inspection class ROV, which will incorporate Smart Tether Management System (STMS).