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Siemens to Connect Thanet Offshore Wind Farm to British Power Grid

Posted on: Thursday, 2 October 2008, 06:00 CDT

Siemens Energy and consortium partner Prysmian Cables & Systems have been awarded an order worth approximately E87 million by Thanet Offshore Wind to connect the Thanet offshore wind farm to the British power grid.

Generating enough electricity to power over 167,000 homes, the wind farm with an installed capacity of 300MW will be constructed in the North Sea, 11km off the coast of Kent. The wind farm will have its connection to the grid ready for operation in the summer of 2009.

As part of the grid connection for the Thanet offshore wind farm, Siemens is constructing an offshore substation platform. A 33/132kV substation with two 180-MVA power transformers will be installed on this platform.

Prysmian will supply two three-phase 132kV high-voltage subsea cables to transport the electrical power to the grid connection point, a new high-voltage switching station, which will be built by Siemens in Richborough, Kent.

Siemens is equipping the substation, which will act as the grid connection point on the coast, with a system for reactive-power compensation based on static var compensator technology. The reactive-power compensation system fully meets the requirements of the British power supply system (grid code), said Siemens.

Source: Datamonitor

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