Dogger Bank construction progress

[dan_b]

Trench digging for the on-shore HVDC transmission cables almost complete

https://doggerbank.com/construction/duc ... -teesside/

[nowty]

The turbines for that windfarm are 14MW monsters with an extra 1MW of Power Boost technology taking it up to 15MW.
https://sofiawindfarm.com/media/pd3iqrp ... 222-dd.pdf

I managed to find out the details of the Power Boost function.


Q: The turbine can be adjusted to produce 15 MW with Power Boost. Can you explain how?

A: The Power Boost function is a wind turbine control feature that increases (boosts) power based on real-time monitoring of the site-specific conditions. For turbines equipped with Power Boost, this functionality is always active. However, if for example the wind speed reaches storm levels, or the turbulence level exceeds a certain limit, Power Boost is deactivated, and the turbine returns to normal power. What we have seen in our fleet analysis is that the Power Boost feature is active more than 98% of the available time, and thus ready to produce up to 15 MW power for this turbine.


It also set a record last year and maintained an average output of 14.95 MW over a 24 hour period.
https://balticwind.eu/siemens-gamesa-tu ... ld-record/

[dan_b]

So basically power boost turns it up to 11

[nowty]

So basically power boost turns it up to 11

For the benefit of any young people who never saw Spinal Tap.