ScottishPower Renewables has renewed an agreement with engineering company Enspec Power Ltd for wind farm maintenance services.
SPR has signed a four-year maintenance framework with Enspec Power for annual maintenance services of reactive compensation equipment installed across a number of its wind farms in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland.
Enspec Power will carry out annual maintenance on SPR’s statcom transformers, shunt reactors and capacitor banks at several of its operational wind farms, including Clachan Flats (pictured).
SPR’s operations and maintenance director Joe Mitchell said: “With an operational portfolio of over 3GW, which is enough to power the equivalent of over 2.1 million homes, the servicing and maintenance of our assets and all associated equipment is paramount, for the efficient operation of our network, and critical in enabling us to deliver against our performance commitments.
“We’re pleased to be working with Enspec Power again to ensure the performance of our installations is maximised whilst supporting the UK supply chain.”
Enspec Power’s director of site services Tony Cook said: “We’re delighted to be continuing our work with SPR, and helping them to continue to provide reliable power to their customers.
“Reactive compensation equipment is essential for wind farms to generate and export green electricity.
“Enspec prides itself on proactive maintenance to ensure the reliability and resilience of these expensive assets allowing them to operate safely and efficiently throughout the operational life of the wind farm.
“We look forward to building on our strong working relationship with SPR.”
The agreement covers equipment installed on SPR’s Carland Cross, Clachan Flats, Wolf Bog, Lynemouth, Beinn Tharsuinn, Beinn an Tuirc 2, Mark Hill, Dun Law Ext, Arecleoch, and Kilgallioch wind farms.
Together, these wind farms have a combined capacity of over 576MW from 292 turbines, which is enough electricity to power the equivalent of over 360,000 homes.