Wind Turbine Interconnection
West Plains Engineering is committed to assisting wind farm developers and owners in the effort to harness our region’s renewable wind energy. Our licensed electrical engineering professionals specialize in power systems and are experienced in providing support from the earliest stages of development all the way to the final stages of energization and interconnection to the power grid.
Our team has experience providing medium and high-voltage electrical design and engineering services, including planning, designing, and engineering:
- Transmission Facilities
- Collector and Interconnection Substations
- Overhead and Underground Collector/Distribution Systems
- Power Factor Correction Facilities
Additionally, our entire team of professionals can provide mechanical and electrical design and engineering of collector site O&M buildings.
Design Services
Transmission Planning & Design
- Feasibility studies and costs
- Route selection
- Due diligence service
- Preliminary design and mapping
- Capacity and loss evaluations
- Final design and construction
- Construction management
- Equipment and construction specification
Collector System Design
- Intelligent preliminary and final circuit layout
- Loss modeling and design optimization
- Grounding circuit design
- Fault indicating input
- Thermal testing and design
- Procurement of pad-mount transformers, grounding transformers and switches, underground cabling, fiber optic cabling, and junction boxes/splice kits
- Construction management
- Electrical equipment procurement
- Equipment and construction specification
Communication System/SCADA Design
- Fiber optic and circuit layout
- Relaying
- RTU/PLC hardware
- Ethernet switches
- Patch panels
- Redundant configurations
- Electrical equipment procurement
- Equipment and construction specification
Substation Design
- System protection and metering
- Reactive power compensation
- Electrical equipment procurement
- Equipment and construction specification
- Buss grounding
- Control house relay and transformer panel design
- Optimization for future turbines and ties
- Distribution or transmission line upgrades
- Specification and procurement of power factor correction equipment, main power transformers, circuit breakers, disconnect switches, metering equipment, control house and panels, steels structures and buss, and ancillary substation equipment and materials