India commissions first VSC HVDC link improving power quality
, 4 days ago The JV of Sumitomo Electric and Siemens Energy has completed connecting India’s first high-voltage direct current (HVDC) link featuring voltage-sourced converter (VSC) and DC-XLPE cable technology. The 2,000-megawatts (MW) electricity transmission system consisting of two links which consists of DC-XLPE cable and overhead transmission line between Pugalur in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to Trichur in Kerala State in South-West India supports transmission operator Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) to counter power deficit in India’s southern region and improve the grid stability. Siemens Energy supplied the two converter stations for the ±320 kilovolt (kV) HVDC system while Sumitomo Electric was responsible for the XLPE HVDC cable system in the DC circuit.
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Siemens Energy will install 22 distribution transformers at China’s first commercial 66kV offshore wind farm, the 300MW phase one of the Yuhuan Offshore Wind Power Project in Taizhou.
The FITformer WIND fluid immersed transformers will help China Huadian Corporation to optimise the energy supply in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Siemens Energy executive vice president for transmission Beatrix Natter said: To successfully drive the energy transition, it is essential to increase the share of renewables in the energy mix. Equipped with innovative state-of-the-art transformer technology, China’s first 66kV offshore wind farm will lead the way to a significant increase of clean, renewable wind energy to the grid and will contribute to China’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2060.
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Siemens Energy’s Digital Transmission Technology Enables Push for Wind Energy in Vietnam
Project is part of the country’s plan to foster integration of renewable energy
Erlangen, December 17, 2020 - Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract by Technology Resources Energy (TRE) to equip two onshore wind farms in Vietnam with Sensproducts, digitally enhanced transmission equipment. The two wind farms IaPet-Dak Doa 1 and IaPet-Dak Doa 2 are both located in the Dak Doa district of Gia Lai province in the country’s central highlands and will have a capacity of 100 megawatts each. The wind farms are part of Vietnam’s ongoing Power Development Master Plan to further push the integration of renewable energy sources and to enhance the power supply.