Interconnection

GL Garrad Hassan's specialist electrical engineering team is highly experienced in helping clients to negotiate their way through all areas of connectivity, from feasibility to post-connection services.

GL Garrad Hassan can provide a full suite of design support services for developers relating to the electrical interconnection of their onshore windfarm.

The electrical interconnection service provided covers a wide range of tasks with the exact scope of the work undertaken dependent on a client's specific needs.

Services may include:

Network connection feasibility

Grid connection application

Negotiation with network operator

Technical requirements for grid connection

Turbine grid compatibility assessment

Wind farm collection system and cabling design

Calculation of electrical losses within the farm

Selection and sizing of ancillary electrical equipment

Load flow and short circuit analysis

Power quality calculations

Tender support for electrical plant