In this article, we give an overview of the latest additions to the Youwind IT Platform:
- The possibility of adding a shunt reactor to improve the efficiency of AC export transmission
- Ability to fix the rotation angle of the wind park layout
- Improvements in the financial overview of your Scenario
- Scenario workflow overview and notifications
- Commenting and tagging
- Share the VMS link and ESRI to the GIS folder
- Updated wind areas in Greece and Portugal used for the public consultation process
- Floating wind budget in 2023
As always, you can write to info@youwindrenewables.com to get further information or help from our offshore wind experts.
Extension of AC transmission modeling with a shunt reactor
When you are using an AC high-voltage transmission in your offshore wind park scenario, you can now add shunt reactors on your offshore substations.
You can do this by using the checkbox Use a shunt reactor on the offshore substation. The reactive power MVAr capacity of the shunt reactor is automatically chosen to maximize the efficiency of the export transmission. You can inspect the resulting Total shunt reactor capacity (MVAr) in the Export Cable assumptions, and the improved Export Cable Efficiency (%) in the Efficiency and Availability table.
The effect of using a shunt reactor will be more significant for AC transmissions covering a longer distance, i.e. when the wind park is further away from the onshore substation.