Options & Solutions

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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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® 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.

The Vestas InteliLight® is a complete end-to-end solution, from aircraft detection to controlled activation of aviation light and surveillance hereof. The system continuously and autonomously scans the wind park’s surrounding area. Each radar has an instrumented range up to 36 kilometers. If an approaching aircraft is detected, its distance, speed, and heading are tracked and an automatic assessment is made on whether or not to activate the aviation lights.

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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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Increased Cut-In Wind Speed is a system intended to prevent bat and bird blade strikes. The system controls the turbine operational cut-in wind speed based on predefined parameters around the turbine, which includes bat and bird migration patterns.

Increased Cut-In Wind Speed is compatible with all Vestas turbine models.

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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.

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This condition monitoring system analyses how your wind turbine is performing via a series of sensors. You’ll know early on if something isn’t performing as expected, and you can service and maintain the wind turbine before a problem becomes crucial and causes prolonged down time. That way you’ll reduce unscheduled maintenance, improve availability, reduce repair costs, plan repair logistics more efficiently, and add value over the long-term.

The Condition Monitoring System is includescompatible with all Vestas turbine models.

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Keep your wind turbines operating smoothly in challenging weather conditions with Vestas Cold Climate Solutions. Building on years of engineering expertise, our extensive portfolio ensure consistent and compliant output during icing and in cold climates:

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

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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.

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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

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The Yaw Power Backup system is a combination of sensors and software to control the turbine above standard cut-out speeds. It ensures that the nacelle and blade assembly can continue to yaw accurately in winds of up to 70 m/s.

The functionality consists of a special operational mode to ensure continuous yawing for turbines in areas where the risk of extreme wind events exists.  Connection of an external power back up system to power the yaw system during grid outage is optional.

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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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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.