ABB Transformers Provide New High Voltage Connection for Europe�s Largest Onshore Windfarm

By Chris Dodds on 12th November, 2013

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ABB Transformers Provide New High Voltage Connection for Europe’s Largest Onshore Windfarm

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Energy efficient low loss transformers will help Scottish Power Renewables to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the extensions to Whitelee Windfarm.

ABB has been awarded a major turnkey contract by SP Energy Networks to supply three high voltage transformers that will provide a new grid connection for the extension of Whitelee Windfarm in Scotland. The 275kV transformers will be supplied by ABB’s focused factory in Lodz, Poland.


Whitelee Windfarm is Europe’s largest onshore windfarm and is located on Eaglesham Moor, around 20ABB Screened Separable Connectors for High Voltage Switchgear & Transformer Cable Terminations miles south of Glasgow. The windfarm currently has 140 turbines which can generate 322 MW of electricity, enough to power 180,000 homes. Scottish Power Renewables, the British subsidiary of Iberdrola Renewables, is now constructing two extensions that will add an additional 75 turbines, increasing the installed capacity to 593 MW.

Scottish Power Renewables has signed an agreement to connect the additional 270 MW produced by the Whitelee extensions to the SP Energy Networks transmission system. This calls for SP Energy Networks to construct a new grid connection substation at Whitelee, where the ABB 275/33 kV 120 MVA transformers will be installed.

“A key factor that enabled ABB to win this contract is that our Lodz factory could meet a relatively tight project timescale, as SP Energy Networks needs all three transformers delivered to site between June and August 2011,” says Ceyhun Sahin, ABB’s General Manager for Transformers in the UK. “Furthermore, the low losses in the transformers will contribute to Scottish Power Renewables’ aim to reduce the overall carbon footprint across the two Whitelee extension projects.”

In addition to the three grid transformers, ABB is also supplying associated 33kV earthing transformers. In a separate major contract ABB is also supplying SP Energy Networks with various high voltage equipment for the new substation, including circuit breakers, surge arresters, current transformers (CTs) and capacitive voltage transformers (CVTs).

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Video : Whitelee Wind Farm (Scotland) - Iberdrola

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