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News Release from: Schneider Electric
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 January 2007
Europe's largest onshore windfarm orders
hardware
Schneider Electric Projects and Services has won a GBP 720,000 order to supply all the 33kV switchgear for Whitelee windfarm in East Kilbride, Scotland.
Schneider Electric Projects and Services has won a GBP 720,000 order to supply all the 33kV switchgear for Whitelee windfarm in East Kilbride, Scotland When completed, Whitelee will be the largest onshore windfarm in Europe with a generating capacity of approximately 322MW, enough to power 200,000 homes, or nearly every house in Glasgow
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Schneider Electric will supply CBGS-O switchgear fitted with Sepam intelligent protection and control units for the main 33kV switchboards and CAS-36 switchgear with delayed closing control units for the sectionalising switchgear.
Schneider Electric has extensive experience of the electrical networks and grid connection requirements of windfarms along with products specifically developed for these applications.
Whitelee windfarm will be located on a vast stretch of high ground south of Glasgow following planning approval from the Scottish Executive.
It will cover a huge area of moor land and forestry, on a site measuring 11.6 x 6.9km.
Deputy Enterprise Minister Allan Wilson said the farm would save about 650,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
Scottish Power Chief Executive Philip Bowman added: "We have always maintained that large windfarms, in appropriate locations, are vital to meeting the UK's ambitious renewable energy targets".
There are currently 125 windfarms in the UK, but a further 24 windfarms are under construction and 77 projects, including Whitelee, have planning consent.
The farm's operator, Scottish Power Renewables, has pledged that the GBP 300 million project should be completed by 2009, with construction at the site having started in summer 2006, and the first turbines expected to be operational in 2008.
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