Collector cable systems are a critical component of a wind plant and play a vital role in efficiently delivering power from wind turbines to the grid. When planning a wind plant, an optimal design of the collector system will minimize electrical losses, minimize cable and trenching costs, and minimize substation configuration costs maximizing the return on investment.
GE’s Wind Collector Optimization Service provides customers with a comprehensive service from initial consultation to a completed and validated design. GE’s optimization service utilizes a leading-edge, proprietary design tool which includes multi-variable analysis to route and size a wind plant collector system. By utilizing the optimization software, GE can reduce the cost of a rationally designed collector system and provide potential savings of greater than 20% in design and build costs.
This service offering incorporates GE’s extensive experience in bringing over 4,000MW of renewable energy online coupled with over 40 years of substation EPC experience. Utilizing a proprietary algorithm that computes an optimized collector circuit design while balancing cost and power losses, GE’s Wind Collector Optimization Service provides customers with a collector system design which optimizes the cable routing and sizing and addresses the challenges with traditional design methods.
Key Benefits
Faster Design Delivery
GE offers more than 2 times faster design delivery through a 60%* reduction in design cycle time, in addition to engineering flexibility with near real-time design iterations.
Faster Design Delivery
GE offers more than 2 times faster design delivery through a 60%* reduction in design cycle time, in addition to engineering flexibility with near real-time design iterations.
Lower Total Cost
Optimize total cost of ownership based on calculated system cost and efficiency tradeoffs.
* GE commits to 2 day design cycle time on receipt of order
Four Simple Steps for Optimized Design
| Initial Project Consultation | Project Data Collection | Develop Design | Project Design Support |
|---|---|---|---|
GE meets with the customer to discuss and agree on:
| Customer sends their required parameters and GE begins the design work. If certain parameters are not available, standard parameters will be assumed. | GE will provide the following deliverables in this scope of work:
| As needed, customers can request design iterations using updated parameters. These can generally be done within 24 hours at no additional cost. |
Wind Collector Optimization Service
Collector cable systems are a critical component of a wind plant and play a vital role in efficiently delivering power from wind turbines to the grid. When planning a wind plant, an optimal design of the collector system will minimize electrical losses, minimize cable and trenching costs, and minimize substation configuration costs maximizing the return on investment.
GE’s Wind Collector Optimization Service provides customers with a comprehensive service from initial consultation to a completed and validated design. GE’s optimization service utilizes a leading-edge, proprietary design tool which includes multi-variable analysis to route and size a wind plant collector system. By utilizing the optimization software, GE can reduce the cost of a rationally designed collector system and provide potential savings of greater than 20% in design and build costs.
This service offering incorporates GE’s extensive experience in bringing over 4,000MW of renewable energy online coupled with over 40 years of substation EPC experience. Utilizing a proprietary algorithm that computes an optimized collector circuit design while balancing cost and power losses, GE’s Wind Collector Optimization Service provides customers with a collector system design which optimizes the cable routing and sizing and addresses the challenges with traditional design methods.
Key Benefits
Faster Design Delivery
GE offers more than 2 times faster design delivery through a 60%* reduction in design cycle time, in addition to engineering flexibility with near real-time design iterations.
Faster Design Delivery
GE offers more than 2 times faster design delivery through a 60%* reduction in design cycle time, in addition to engineering flexibility with near real-time design iterations.
Lower Total Cost
Optimize total cost of ownership based on calculated system cost and efficiency tradeoffs.
* GE commits to 2 day design cycle time on receipt of order
Four Simple Steps for Optimized Design
| Initial Project Consultation | Project Data Collection | Develop Design | Project Design Support |
|---|---|---|---|
GE meets with the customer to discuss and agree on:
| Customer sends their required parameters and GE begins the design work. If certain parameters are not available, standard parameters will be assumed. | GE will provide the following deliverables in this scope of work:
| As needed, customers can request design iterations using updated parameters. These can generally be done within 24 hours at no additional cost. |