Hitachi ABB Power Grids to Build Substations for Three Wind Farms in Poland

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has been awarded projects by EDF Renewables to deliver three 110/20-kV power substations for three new wind power plants that it is building in Northern and Western Poland.

The plants are near Ustka (28 MW), Parnowo (15 MW), and Górzyca (24 MW). In addition to the three substations, Hitachi ABB Power Grids will also deliver a 110-kV substation in Parnowo, which will be used by the distribution system operator.

EDF Renewables has commissioned the three new investments for 2021.

“What is important is that we have managed to optimize the original project in order to reduce the cost of its implementation, while maintaining high functionality,” Hubert Krukowski, marketing and sales manager and vice president of the management board of Hitachi ABB Power Grids Poland, said.

Krukowski added, in part, “These are the next in a series of projects that we are implementing in Poland for the EDF Group – our systems and apparatus have been working well for several years in another windfarm built by EDF.” 

The 110/20-kV power substations are the ‘brain’ of wind farms and are used to off-take and transform generated energy into the grid level. The substations will be equipped with Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ high voltage equipment, including high voltage circuit breakers, current and voltage instrument transformers and surge arresters.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids said that in June, it became a supporting member of the Polish Offshore Wind Energy Society, contributing to the acceleration of the nationwide debate on the development of the country’s offshore wind energy sector.