Category: Substations, Overhead Lines & Electrical Works
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Cost drivers in Electrical Balance of Plant
Due to my education as a Civil Engineer there I already wrote a substantial number of posts regarding cost of the civil BoP. However I do not want to neglect the electrical side, which as you might already know is usually accountable for approximately 50% of the total cost of the balance of plant of…
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EBoP vs CBoP – where is the money?
There are several recurring questions that I normally hear at least 3 or 4 time each year. Some are variants of things like “How much does it cost 1 Km of road in Brazil?” – this was asked by my ex colleague Pau many, many years ago but it’s still a classic for me, and…
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Is wind energy really unpredictable?
I know that I’m probably biased on this subject but I want to spend a few words on a recurrent subject that pop up often in my discussion about wind energy with people from different sectors and way of life. Basically, a standard argument about wind energy is that it’s unreliable and unpredictable. In my…
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SCADA Miner: getting more from your SCADA data
This week I’ve had the pleasure to meet (virtually) Tom, an electrical engineer specialized in SCADA. Tom developed an interesting software called “SCADA miner“. Basically, the software automatically dig the available data from various sensors and cross check the information to spot actual or potential problems that might go unnoticed, “lost in the sea of…
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Wind farm substation: an overview
Almost in every wind farm a step-up substation is built to collect all the energy generated by the turbines and received through the MV cables. The exceptions are new wind farms or existing wind farms extensions built near a substation that can be upgraded to absorb the additional energy produced: in these cases, only a…