Options & Solutions

for your project

By adding options and solutions to the standard project, we can enhance the performance of the wind project – and the business case certainty of the investment.

Project Planning

When you are planning a wind power plant, you need to consider a broad range of factors over the entire lifecycle of the project. These range from financing and siting, to grid requirements and the regulatory framework.

Having installed more than 80,000 wind turbines throughout the world, we have remarkable expertise in these areas. We work closely with our customers during the planning phase to capitalise on this knowledge and build successful projects.

Electrical PreDesign

The complexity and specific requirements of grid connections vary considerably across the globe, making the optimal design of electrical components for your wind power plant essential.

By identifying grid codes early in the project phase and simulating extreme operating conditions, Electrical PreDesign provides you with an ideal way to build a grid compliant, productive and highly profitable wind power plant. It allows customised collector network cabling, substation protection and reactive power compensation, which boost the cost efficiency of your business.

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Turbine Options & Solutions

An option is an extra feature that can be added to the turbine to suit a project’s specific needs. By adding options to the standard turbine, we can enhance the performance of the wind power project – and the business case certainty of the investment.

Expand the sections below to learn more about the different options and solutions. Please be aware that their availability will differ from country to country and from turbine to turbine.

Fire Prevention Systems

Fire hazard incidents are significantly rare, but implications potentially severe. Therefore, fire prevention is a critical Vestas product function with a dedicated engineering discipline.

The Vestas engineers ensure that the turbines are designed adhering to the Vestas Fire Hazard Risk Assessment to comply with relevant standards and guidelines specific to fire and wind turbine application.

In addition to this, fire detection systems as well as fire suppression systems are available across the Vestas 2 MW, 4 MW and EnVentus™ platforms to safeguard the turbine.

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Vestas InteliLight^®

Vestas InteliLight® delivers reliable activation of the aviation lights when needed while avoiding unnecessary continuous lighting. It is a proven end-to-end solution, designed by Vestas and optimised specifically for wind power plant applications. The result is an industry-leading, effective and safe solution available across turbine brands and multibrand parks, compliant with the most restrictive requirements, such as those of DFS/BMVI in Germany.

In addition, Vestas offers market specific alternative solutions for the control of aviation lights, enabling the combination of Vestas turbines with other Aircraft Detection Lightning System technologies to maximise compliance globally.

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Watch the Vestas InteliLight^® video

Shadow Detection System

The Vestas Shadow Detection System is a solution designed to tailer turbine operation to minimise the negative impact of shadow flicker on surroundings. Shadow flicker occurs when sunlight on a certain spot is continously broken by the rotating turbine blades.

Uniquely configured for each turbine, VSDS ensures maximum turbine energy production, while adhering to local requirements and avoiding shadow flicker on surrounding inhabited areas.

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Vestas Bat Protection System

Vestas Bat Protection System is a software solution that responds to certain environmental factors related to the likelihood of bat presence. By smartly pausing the turbine, performance can be maximised while minimising the environmental impact.

Depending on site conditions, Vestas offers an additional solution to customers in the U.S and Canada. The Bat Deterrent System uses acoustics to dissuade bats from entering the rotor swept area.

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Power and Load Optimised Modes

Powered by Vestas' superior wind insight

Vestas’ Power and Load Optimised Modes are advanced operational strategies, which enable product customisation for site-specific conditions.

Based on Vestas’ deep understanding of global wind patterns and load implications, the turbines are configurable to achieve the optimum power curves. The configurations maximise annual energy production of the individual turbines in the wind park, while adhering to the operational envelope of 20 year design lifetime.

Ultimately, ensuring the ideal wind solution to every site.

View the Vestas Power and Load Optimised Modes brochure

Condition Monitoring Solution

The Vestas Condition Monitoring Solution (CMS) includes supervision of turbine components, data processing and input for incident response coordination to optimise the operation of wind parks. Advanced sensors continuously monitor power train, yaw and pitch systems, enabling proactive detection of service needs. Vestas CMS is available both for new and after-sales installation.

Vestas Remote Operations Centre (ROC) is a Vestas Service extension using Vestas global presence and resources to deliver specialized 24/7 wind turbine monitoring and error reporting. Vestas ROC significantly reduces turbine downtime while facilitating synergies in maintenance planning and logistics, thus improving the business case of your investment.

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Vestas Cold Climate Solutions

The Vestas Cold Climate Solutions build on years of experience ensuring safe and efficient energy production in cold climate conditions:

Vestas Low Temperature Option
Vestas Ice Detection™
Vestas De-Icing™
Vestas Anti-Icing System™

The Vestas Cold Climate Solutions can be combined with additional options and solutions such as Vestas Ice Assessment™ and Vestas Ice Control to enhance the performance of the power plant.

View the Vestas Cold Climate Solutions brochure

View the Vestas Anti-Icing System™ video

Aviation Obstruction Lights

Aviation Obstruction Lights

Vestas offers a large variety of aviation light solutions and related products to meet both international and local requirements for aviation marking of wind turbines.

The aviation lights on both the nacelle and tower are visible 360° around the turbine. By adding visibility sensors, light intensity can be reduced in clear weather conditions. In case further reduction is needed Vestas InteliLight^® only activates the lights when an aircraft is operating in the immediate vicinity of the wind farm. This reduces the visual impact to a minimum.

The aviation lights are available in different configurations with variable colours (red or white), infrared, flash rates and intensities. As a standard, two lights are located on the top of the nacelle and, when required, four lights around the same radius on the tower to ensure 360° visibility.

View the Aviation Obstruction Lights brochure

Sound Power Optimisation

Vestas Sound Power Optimisation is a suite of options and solutions with the purpose of maximising energy production while meeting specific sound power levels.
These include:

Siting Methods

Sound Mitigation Strategy

Vestas OptiTip®

Aerodynamic blade design

Serrated Trailing Edge technology

View the Vestas Sound Power Optimisation brochure

Yaw Power Backup System

When high wind speeds trigger a cut-out event, yaw systems become essential mechanisms to safeguard the structural integrity of the wind turbine by yawing the nacelle towards the wind direction.

In rare extreme climate events power from the main power grid can be lost, preventing the standard yaw system to work. The Vestas Yaw Power Backup System maintains the yawing functionality of the wind turbine in grid loss events and is fully integrated with the Vestas SCADA system.

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Tower Technologies

Vestas tower technology include Tubular Steel Towers (TST), High Tubular Steel Towers (HTST), and Large Diameter Steel Tower (LDST). Concrete Hybrid Towers (CHT) are available in certain markets.

Reaching higher in low wind

Vestas’ proprietary Large Diameter Steel Tower (LDST) technology combines proven steel construction with an innovative design to deliver strength and height. Easy transportation and quick installation contribute to excellent cost of energy.

LDST is a simple, yet highly efficient way to harvest wind resources at low-wind sites. Higher hub heights increase the force exerted by the wind on the Tower structure, which typically would require usage of thicker steel plates. Instead, LDST technology adds strength by increasing the diameter of the bottom sections without adding extra steel, reducing production costs, and ensuring at least 99 percent recyclability. Reaching higher with the LDST technology can result in up to 20 percent* higher Annual Energy Production (AEP).

View the Vestas' LDST brochure

High Wind Operation

High Wind Operation (HWO)

Vestas’ High Wind Operation (HWO) is an intelligent control feature that allows the turbine to continue operating beyond standard cut-out wind speeds. HWO gradually reduces energy production following a derating profile to enable extended wind turbine operation. On wind park level, this means a more gradual reduction of generated power, benefiting grid stability. The result is improved output stability, energy production, and reliability.

HWO can be applied to all Vestas turbine models operating with the VMP Global™ software platform.

View the Vestas HWO Brochure

Construction & Installation

During the construction phase, the wind power plant is built and connected to the grid. There is a huge number of tasks to be carried out by both the developer and Vestas to ensure this happens efficiently and effectively.

Precisely who does what will differ from project to project depending on the risk profile. Working closely with the client, we can provide everything from an inclusive package, where we supply, install and calibrate the plant, to simply supplying the turbines.

By choosing Vestas as your partner, you benefit from our vast knowledge and experience of different wind environments all over the world, together with our unrivalled project management skills, from design integration of every piece of the wind power plant, to high quality manufacturing and transport and construction expertise.

EPC - Engineering Procurement Construction

Vestas Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) leverages extensive project management experience and deep product knowledge to deliver customised solutions for each unique wind power project. Depending on project needs, Vestas EPC can be structured as a comprehensive turnkey solution or selected Balance of Plant support.

Extensive project management experience combined with product expertise has resulted in more than 100 successfully executed EPC projects totalling more than 4 GW capacity around the world.

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Scope of Supply

Effectively managing your project’s scope of supply is an important factor in minimising the risk. We have designed a number of flexible solutions for optimising scope of supply to meet every customer requirement.

We generally offer the following scopes of supply:

Supply and supervision: As well as supplying the turbines, we supervise their installation and commissioning on site.

Supply and commission: We provide manpower to help get the turbines up and running. We may also provide transport if you need it.

Supply and installation: In addition to the above, we procure and supervise the cranes for installing your wind turbines, provide the manpower to install and commission the turbines, and, if required, we can also transport them from the factory to the site.

Hybrid Power Plant Solutions

Vestas delivers Hybrid Power Plant Solutions offering advanced grid support capabilities, asset integration and optimisation for power plant planning and operation. These solutions have been designed leveraging of the knowledge and the experience of meeting grid requirements in more than 82 countries across the globe.

Vestas Hybrid Power Plant Solutions include consulting services, planning and right sizing, project specific asset integration and optimisation, EPC and integrated service, which are combined with Vestas’ proven wind turbine technology, our wide portfolio of options and solutions and Vestas Power Plant Controller adapted for Hybrid Power Plants.

As grid codes for Hybrid Power Plants, favourable commercial schemes and regulations are still immature in many markets, Vestas is primarily focused on realising the potential of Hybrid Power Plant Solutions in India and Australia, combining wind power generation with either solar PV power generation or electrical storage - or both.

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Hybrid Projects

Working closely with customers, Vestas has developed different Hybrid Power Plant Solutions covering the full project’s value chain, from siting to construction, grid connection, and service. The knowledge and agility gleaned from the operational performance of Vestas’ wind and hybrid power plant projects enable us to continuously co-create and deliver case-specific customised solutions.

KENNEDY ENERGY PARK: WIND, SOLAR, AND STORAGE

Developed by Australia’s international renewable energy company Windlab, in partnership with Vestas and Eurus Energy, Kennedy Energy Park phase I is the world’s first utility-scale, on-grid wind, solar and battery energy storage power plant. The project is located in Flinders Shire in central north Queensland, Australia, which is blessed with world-class wind and solar resources.

Kennedy Energy Park Phase I will feature a total installed capacity of 60.2 MW, combining 43.2 MW of Vestas V136-3.45 MW wind turbines operating in 3.6 MW Power Optimised Mode, 15 MW of solar PV power capacity, and 2 MW / 4 MWh of Li-on electrical storage, giving flexibility and increasing the energy production and the capacity factor of the hybrid power plant.

Vestas’ hybrid power plant solution for Kennedy Energy Park includes consulting services on wind and solar resources and assessment of site conditions in partnership with Windlab, project-specific asset integration, control strategies and extended analysis for grid code compliance (in an exceptionally weak grid) and EPC in consortium with Quanta Services. Additionally, Vestas will provide a 15-year AOM 4000 service agreement for the full power plant, covering the service of the wind turbines as well as scheduled maintenance for the solar panels, battery energy storage and electrical systems

TERNA ENERGY LOUZES POWER PLANT

Louzes Wind Power Plant was established in Greece in 2008 featuring 24 MW of wind power capacity. In 2012, a 1 MW solar power plant was integrated to the existing wind power plant, becoming a hybrid power plant through sharing interconnection facilities.

Vestas’ hybrid power plant solution for Louzes Power Plant included consulting services on wind resources and assessment of the site conditions and project-specific asset integration, including grid compatibility and control strategies. Additionally, Louzes’ VestasOnline® Business SCADA platform integrates the wind power plant and the PV power plant so that they are controlled as one single entity. This project lends five years of operational experience with Active Power regulation for wind and solar power generation.

LEM KÆR POWER PLANT

The Lem Kær hybrid power plant was installed in 2012, adding a full-size grid-connected battery energy storage system with two batteries to an existing 12 MW wind power plant. The project is the first large-scale wind power plant combined with electrical storage and connected to the grid.

Vestas’ hybrid power plant solution for Lem Kær power plant included project-specific planning, right sizing, and integration of the system, as well as the design and implementation of advanced control strategies. The Lem Kær system has been approved by the Danish Transmission System Operator for primary reserve market participation, enabling the capture of higher revenues through dispatching energy that would otherwise have been curtailed.

Innovation

Getting to a world entirely powered by renewable energy requires constant innovation and testing. In that journey, Vestas brings along local and global partners to create better solutions, faster and has utilized a variety of living laboratories for proving concepts that build on our existing capabilities and could unlock further opportunities in the energy market.

Learn more about Vestas’ Hybrid tests & partnerships >