Introduction to offshore wind part 4

To my wife.

This is part 4 of a (now planned) 5 part series on wind power in general and offshore wind farms in particular. In this section we go into some detail about the wind farm cabling and electrical systems, as well as the control system.

Contents:
00:00 Introduction
01:05 Contents
02:38 Recap
06:41 General arrangement example
08:20 Single Line Diagram
10:03 Inter array cable functions
14:11 Strings, Loops and routing
22:47 Computer optimised string routing
25:15 Computer optimised loop routing
27:01 Offshore substations
30:13 Export cables
32:24 Onshore Substation
34:39 Harmonic filters and reactive power compensation
40:21 High voltage switchgear
46:23 Wind farm control systems
51:56 Future developments
56:18 Summary of part 4

UK national grid code
https://www.nationalgrideso.com/elect...

Some information on reactive power compensation and harmonic filtering
https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/...
https://www.mathworks.com/help/physmo...

Some links to global climate change information:

https://skepticalscience.com/argument...
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-c...

Thanks for watching!