Wind Energy
 West Plains Engineering, Inc. is committed to assisting wind
farm developers and owners in the effort to harness the
renewable energy of wind and bring it to the consumer's
doorstep. West Plains Engineering's licensed electrical
engineering professionals are experienced in providing
support from the earliest stages of wind energy farm
development to the project's final stages of energization
and interconnection to the power grid.
West Plains Engineering's team of electrical engineering professionals are experienced in
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, and mechanical/electrical design and engineering of collector site O&M buildings.
West Plains Engineering, Inc. has been involved in various wind farms in the Midwest region
of the United States. Below lists a sampling of our electrical design services:
Transmission Planning and Design:
- Feasibility studies & costs
- Route selection
- Due diligence service
- Preliminary design and mapping
- Capacity and loss evaluations
- Final design and construction
- Construction management
- Electrical equipment procurement
- 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 padmount 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, steel structures and
buss, and ancillary substation equipment and materials
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