Wind farms

We partner with wind farm owners, operators, developers, and independent energy producers to mitigate risk by providing flexible temporary energy

Whether you’re checking the integrity of turbine controls during pre-commissioning or running load bank tests during commissioning, your onshore or offshore wind farm needs a reliable source of energy. Even where no grid connectivity exists, or connections are delayed. That’s where we come in.

We help wind farms get online on time by delivering scalable energy wherever it’s required – onshore and off. With grid emulation and temporary energy sources, we help you:

• Reduce financial and tax risk by thoroughly testing turbines before your Commercial Operation Date (COD)
• Mitigate the impact of delays to grid connectivity
• Optimize testing and commissioning to reduce emissions and costs
• Undertake maintenance without costly downtime

• Grid emulation for testing and commissioning, using generators, load banks, transformers, and load control panels to create a temporary grid. This allows you to test earlier and more often. Our generators are also capable of paralleling with automatic load controls, allowing you to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.
• Hybrid grid emulation solutions that combine efficient generators with Aggreko batteries. Our turnkey solutions use energy storage to reduce generator run time and, in turn, emissions. All with fast installation and plug-and-play functionality with the entire Aggreko ecosystem.
• Pre-commissioning energy, enabling manufacturers to test turbine controls and identify any equipment that may have been damaged in transit or during construction.
• Energy for emergencies and maintenance, including energy for blade hospitals and repair facilities.

Your lifetime partner for renewable energy

Aggreko has been working with the wind farm industry since it started, so we know that each stage of design brings unique challenges. We can work with turbine manufacturers, wind farm operators and contractors to help you with:

• Planning and infrastructure: We can provide power for your site surveys and initial infrastructure work, including laying cables and civil works. We can also supply power, heating, cooling and dehumidification for site camps and wind turbine equipment storage.
• Construction: We can provide power, distribution and fuel management during wind farm construction and installation, together with temperature-control equipment for storage units and worker accommodation.
• Pre-commissioning: We can provide the power and loadbanks needed to fully test turbines prior to commissioning the wind farm, to make sure nothing has been damaged during transit to the site.
• Testing and commissioning: Our high-voltage technicians will bring in a tailor-made package, including load banks, generators and transformers, to mirror the power conditions and loads you expect from the grid, so you can be sure that everything will work perfectly from the moment you connect to it. This can result in early revenue generation and meeting subsidy-reduction deadlines.
• Operation and maintenance: If grid power is interrupted for any reason, we can provide a temporary power solution to keep your equipment healthy and make sure you return to generating power swiftly. We can help you manage temperature and humidity levels during blade repairs with equipment that we tailor to regional and seasonal conditions. We also provide power, heating, cooling and dehumidification during tower upgrades and maintenance.