Hadyard Hill wind farm with its 52 wind turbines is capable of generating 120MW.
The UK’s largest onshore wind farm is being equipped with ABB power transformers together with associated high voltage switchgear and control equipment. Scottish and Southern Energy’s new £85 million Hadyard Hill Windfarm Development will be connected to Scotland’s main power transmission grid.
The wind farm with its 52 wind turbines is capable of generating 120MW. The development project includes a substation and control building, to convert the power generated to the 132kV required for grid transmission, together with a 16km overhead power line to connect the site to the grid supply point (GSP) at Maybole.
ABB is supplying two 90MVA 132/33kV power transformers directly to Scottish and Southern Energy. It is also supplying an 11- panel 33kV switchboard, two 5Mvar capacitors, a 145kV dead tank circuit breaker, six CVTs, six surge arrestors and line traps, to Cruickshanks, the Balfour Beatty Group company specialising in high voltage substation design and construction.