Floating Solar Park BCT
The floating solar park BCT is located next to Windpark BCT, which is part of the Business Centre Treeport industrial area along the A16 at the border between the Netherlands and Belgium. For this floating solar park, consisting of 1100 solar panels, GreenTrust is involved in the following phases:
- Operational Management
- Feasibility
- Development
Cable Pooling at the floating Wind Park BCT
The network of electricity cables is becoming overloaded in more and more places in the Netherlands (grid congestion), causing new connection requests or expansions to the grid to take longer or be temporarily rejected. Cable pooling can be a smart solution to address this issue. Through cable pooling, it’s possible to deliver wind and solar energy to the grid using the same connection. This happens without exceeding the grid’s limits thanks to a controller that adjusts the solar park’s output when too much energy is being produced.
For example, the floating solar panels at Business Centre Treeport (BCT) needed grid capacity to distribute their generated energy. Instead of creating an entirely new connection, these solar panels can use the existing infrastructure of the wind turbines on the same site. The turbines have a fixed transport capacity but don’t always use their full capacity, leaving room for an additional cable that connects the solar panels to the existing purchasing station (the power house).
We installed a new transformer in collaboration with the partners and contractors. The wind turbines operate at a much higher voltage level than the solar farm, and the transformer allowed us to make the connection anyway. Most projects are all slightly different, so cable pooling is a really fun puzzle to create. It really is a congestion management solution, so we are helping to relieve the current overload on the grid. How great is that?
Team Floating Solar Park BCT
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