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Design Considerations
David Flood
Head of Electrical
Systems, Forewind
Stakeholder Workshops,
April 2010
Starting points for design (1)
Cost
Environmental issues
Visual impacts
Health and Safety
Starting points for design (3)
UK Transmission Turbine
Network Arrays
• Land owners
• Authorities
NG Sub-Station
• Technology suppliers
Collecting the power from the turbines
Typical inter array layout
Turbine
Radial configuration Arrays
• Most common solution
Developer
• Adopted from onshore wind farms
• “String” a number of turbines along a 33kV cable
• Approximately 8 turbines on each array string V≥33kV AC
(max. 40MW)
V= 400kV AC
Next step: then OFTO
Landfall point
• Preferably chosen to minimise overall export distance
• Focus on consentability of location to reduce cost and
consenting burden
Inputs:
• Wind-farm locations for each table informed by Offshore
Exercise output
• Connection points to transmission network given by “National
Grid Offshore Development Information Statement”