American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) has announced that it has received an order worth more than US$ 10 million from Acciona Energy for its new Dynamic VAR Ride Through (D-VAR RT) solution.
Building on AMSC’s D-VAR platform the company’s D-VAR RT product
enables individual wind turbines to continue operating smoothly by
“riding through” voltage disturbances on power grids that might
otherwise interrupt their operation.? The D-VAR RT product meets
stringent grid interconnection requirements, including Spain’s new
Procedimiento de Operación 12.3 requirement for both existing and new
wind turbines. Acciona Energy has initially ordered D-VAR RT solutions
for an important amount of first-generation “squirrel-cage” wind
turbines that are currently providing more than 250MW of electricity in
Spain to meet P.O. 12.3.? AMSC will deliver all of the D-VAR RT
solutions covered under this contract to ACCIONA Energy over the next
few months.
