The EDP Cernavodă Wind Farm is located in
Cernavodă,
Constanța County
Constanța () is a Counties of Romania, county (județ) of Romania on the Bulgaria–Romania border, border with Bulgaria, in the Dobruja region. Its capital city is also named Constanța.
Demographics
In 2021, it had a population of 655,997 ...
,
Romania
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. It has 46 individual wind turbines, each with a nominal output of around 3 MW, with a total capacity of 138 MW. This capacity is sufficient to power over 85,000 homes. The project, which involved a capital investment of approximately €200 million, was commissioned between 2010 and May 2011.
Overview
It has 46 individual
wind turbine
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s with a nominal output of around 3
MW which delivers up to 138 MW of power, enough to power over 85,000 homes, which required a capital investment of approximately €200 million. The project was undertaken and commissioned between 2010 and May 2011. The substation control system is based on
ABB Micro
SCADA Pro technology using
LON and
DNP protocol communication with field equipment and
IEC104 with two dispatch centres situated in
Porto
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,
Portugal
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and
Bucharest
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,
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
, . The control and protection system was designed and engineered by Spanish company GEDLux Sistemas de Control. The EDP Cernavodă Wind Farm is the sister project of the
EDP Peştera Wind Farm, a 90 MW wind farm which is currently operating and located east of the Cernavodă farm close to the
Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant and the
Danube – Black Sea Canal.
The wind farm is owned by
EDP Renováveis, the
renewable energy
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branch of the
Portuguese conglomerate
Energias de Portugal.
References
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Wind farms in Romania