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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Siemens Energy AG (Erlangen, Germany), a subsidiary of electrical and electronics technology company Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) (Munich, Germany), has secured a £101 million ($151 million) grid connection contract to transport power generated from the U.K.'s Lincs offshore windfarm to the national grid. Siemens will also supply 75 wind turbines for the windfarm. Each turbine will have a capacity of 3.6 megawatts (MW), a rotor diameter of 120 meters and blade length of 58.5 meters. When operational, the offshore windfarm will provide power for about 200,000 homes in the eastern U.K.
The Lincs offshore windfarm will be 8 kilometers from the Skegness coast. The facility will have an installed power generation capacity of up to 270 MW and is scheduled to be operational by 2012. Construction began this year. The annual permitted generation capacity for the project is 250 MW. The remaining 20 MW will be generated at the adjacent Lynn and Inner Dowsing windfarms, which will be connected to the transmission grid of the Lincs windfarm.
According to the contract, Siemens will build an offshore and an onshore substation platform. The floating offshore substation will have two 240-megavolt-ampere (MVA) transformers, 33-kilovolt (kV) medium-voltage switchgear and 132-kV high-voltage switchgear. The 240-MVA transformers on the substation will step up the voltage from 33 kV to 132 kV before transmitting to the grid. The grid network will comprise two 40-kilometer, underground 132-kV cables, which will be supplied by Nexans Norway AS (Oslo, Norway), to connect the wind power plant to the new substation. The high-voltage transmission cables will be partially submerged in the sea at a depth of 1 to 3 meters and partially onshore. The subsea cables will transport power from the offshore substation to the 132-kV grid feed-in point at an onshore substation located adjacent to the 400-kV Walpole substation near King's Lynn.
The onshore substation will contain two 300-MVA power transformers, and 132-kV and 400-kV switchgear. The transformers will step up the voltage from 132 kV to 400 kV, before feeding into the national electricity grid. Siemens is also responsible for installing the associated surge protection, and instrumentation and control equipment at the substations.
Siemens intends to use its proprietary SVC Plus reactive-power compensation system for feeding power into the grid, according to the norms specified by the U.K. government The SVC Plus system is based on the voltage-sourced converter (VSC) technology and can be monitored using insulated-gate bipolar transistors. As per the contract, Siemens will conduct a detailed design study for all the electrical components of the windfarm and grid.
The Lincs offshore windfarm is being developed by Centrica Renewable Energy Limited, a division of Centrica plc (PINKSHEETS:CPYYY) (Windsor, England), at an estimated investment of £725 million ($1.09 billion). Lincs Windfarm Limited is jointly owned by Centrica, which has a 50% stake in the project, and Dong Energy A/S (Fredericia, Denmark) and Siemens Project Ventures (Munich, Germany), each of which has 25% shares.
According to Ron Smith, the managing director of Siemens Transmission and Distribution, Siemens Energy is responsible for connecting 75% of the U.K.'s offshore windfarms to the national power grid. The company is currently executing wind power projects with a combined capacity of 2,200 MW.
The U.K. aims to generate 15% of its total power from renewable sources by 2020 to meet European Union emission norms, a significant part of which will come from wind energy. The country aims to install windfarms with a combined capacity of 33,000 MW by 2020 to meet about half the country's total power consumption with wind energy. In 2009, about 1,077 MW of new wind generation capacity was installed in the country, accounting for 10% of total new wind capacity installed in the European Union.
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The Lincs offshore windfarm will be 8 kilometers from the Skegness coast. The facility will have an installed power generation capacity of up to 270 MW and is scheduled to be operational by 2012. Construction began this year. The annual permitted generation capacity for the project is 250 MW. The remaining 20 MW will be generated at the adjacent Lynn and Inner Dowsing windfarms, which will be connected to the transmission grid of the Lincs windfarm.
According to the contract, Siemens will build an offshore and an onshore substation platform. The floating offshore substation will have two 240-megavolt-ampere (MVA) transformers, 33-kilovolt (kV) medium-voltage switchgear and 132-kV high-voltage switchgear. The 240-MVA transformers on the substation will step up the voltage from 33 kV to 132 kV before transmitting to the grid. The grid network will comprise two 40-kilometer, underground 132-kV cables, which will be supplied by Nexans Norway AS (Oslo, Norway), to connect the wind power plant to the new substation. The high-voltage transmission cables will be partially submerged in the sea at a depth of 1 to 3 meters and partially onshore. The subsea cables will transport power from the offshore substation to the 132-kV grid feed-in point at an onshore substation located adjacent to the 400-kV Walpole substation near King's Lynn.
The onshore substation will contain two 300-MVA power transformers, and 132-kV and 400-kV switchgear. The transformers will step up the voltage from 132 kV to 400 kV, before feeding into the national electricity grid. Siemens is also responsible for installing the associated surge protection, and instrumentation and control equipment at the substations.
Siemens intends to use its proprietary SVC Plus reactive-power compensation system for feeding power into the grid, according to the norms specified by the U.K. government The SVC Plus system is based on the voltage-sourced converter (VSC) technology and can be monitored using insulated-gate bipolar transistors. As per the contract, Siemens will conduct a detailed design study for all the electrical components of the windfarm and grid.
The Lincs offshore windfarm is being developed by Centrica Renewable Energy Limited, a division of Centrica plc (PINKSHEETS:CPYYY) (Windsor, England), at an estimated investment of £725 million ($1.09 billion). Lincs Windfarm Limited is jointly owned by Centrica, which has a 50% stake in the project, and Dong Energy A/S (Fredericia, Denmark) and Siemens Project Ventures (Munich, Germany), each of which has 25% shares.
According to Ron Smith, the managing director of Siemens Transmission and Distribution, Siemens Energy is responsible for connecting 75% of the U.K.'s offshore windfarms to the national power grid. The company is currently executing wind power projects with a combined capacity of 2,200 MW.
The U.K. aims to generate 15% of its total power from renewable sources by 2020 to meet European Union emission norms, a significant part of which will come from wind energy. The country aims to install windfarms with a combined capacity of 33,000 MW by 2020 to meet about half the country's total power consumption with wind energy. In 2009, about 1,077 MW of new wind generation capacity was installed in the country, accounting for 10% of total new wind capacity installed in the European Union.
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