Portuguese developer EDPR and OEM Vestas are switching on a hybrid wind-and-PV demonstration project in Cádiz, Spain, as part of an ongoing strategic shift at the two companies toward developing renewables installations that can balance energy supply with grid demand.
The demonstrator wires together a V112-3.0MW turbine at the Janda III wind farm with 372kW of new-build PV - with the PV fed in to the turbine as direct current, which is then converted and transformed by an add-on power conversion system and then exported onto the the grid.
