WIND TURBINE PERFORMANCE TESTING

ESB International wanted to have their turbines’ power curve tested. The IEC standard 61400-12-1 deals with this procedure. The standard sets a large number of criteria that must be adhered to in order to comply. In order to achieve this, the company needed to engage with a company that had the advanced monitoring and programming engineering skills required to complete this project.

ESBI chose Premium Power (www.premiumpower.ie) to provide a temporary monitoring system which was to be programmed to carry out the necessary mathematical and statistical calculations required by the standard.

Premium Power constructed, programmed and tested a purpose build monitoring system and installed this at a number of points on a wind farm located in the midlands of Ireland. The wind farm consisted of 27 turbines over a wide area.

The metering system consists of:

Highly accurate metering components programmed to generate statistical information to comply with IEC 61400-12-1.

GSM mobile components to enable nightly backhaul of the data to a server.

Highly accurate solid Core CT’s compliant to the required standard, IEC 60044.

The testing kit is deployed in a Ruggedized case and easy to setup on site.

All of the data is stored on a Database Server at Premium Power offices where complete reports can be generated for the client.

ABOUT ESBI

ESB International (ESBI) is a growing international energy company and one of Europe’s leading engineering and consultancy organisations. It is part of ESB’s non-regulated businesses and operates across a wide area of the energy industry.

ESBI invests in, develops, owns, operates and maintains power stations both nationally and internationally and, also trades electricity in competitive European energy markets.

This company is a pioneer in combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) technology with a world-renowned reputation for unrivalled engineering excellence.

ESBI offers a full range of engineering, operations and maintenance (O&M) solutions, as well as consultancy services to the global energy market.