FASTAP project, already in motion to increase the wind turbines operability while reducing wind’s leverage cost of energy

FASTAP project, already in motion to increase the wind turbines operability while reducing wind’s leverage cost of energy

• FASTAP’s technology aims to reduce up to 5.5% wind’s Leverage Cost of Energy and to achieve a 5% of increment in annual production simultaneously.
• The consortium has large experience working together and cover the whole value chain to ensure that the FASTAP final product reaches the market: Siemens Gamesa, Mondragon University, Infineon and jSGB-SMIT

FASTAP is an innovative European project executed by four organizations from Denmark, Spain and Germany: Siemens Gamesa, Mondragon University, Infineon and SGB-SMIT. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2021 research and innovation program, under grant agreement No 971145, and it will last 3 years.

The aim of FASTAP is to transform and improve the wind energy sector through the optimization of the turbines’ electric capabilities. FASTAP’s technology is focused on increasing the energy production while reducing CO2 emissions and the associated costs. It aims to reduce up to 5.5% wind’s Leverage Cost of Energy and to achieve a 5% of increment in annual production simultaneously.

The current market situation makes mandatory to use renewable energy sources to feed society and business. In this sense, not only the environment will be relieved by FASTAP, but also families will appreciate it in the lowering of electricity bills and in the demand of new high-skilled green jobs.

With these goals, FASTAP will update or replace the traditional wind turbine transformer by a fast On-Load Tap Changer. It will allow enhancing wind turbines’ electric features and ease its integration in weak grids. This new technology is based on thyristors semiconductors that permit to choose and regulate, very quickly, the best voltage we want the wind turbine to operate in.

The drivers of the project have large experience working together and cover the whole value chain to ensure that the FASTAP final product reaches the market. Siemens Gamesa is the main coordinator of the project, and leader in the WTG market. It will be the integrator and validator of the FASTAP product into 5 MW platforms.

Regarding Mondragon University, it is the most industrially oriented University in Spain. It was the first creator of the FASTAP concept and will provide the new on-load tap changing technology for Wind Turbines. Infineon is a market leader in bipolar high-performance semiconductors and it brings the technical know-how and commercial capacity for thyristors-based semiconductors. And SGB-SMIT, is the best medium-sized manufacturer of transformers in Europe, it adds the technical know-how and the commercial capacity for transformers.

All the experts that will participate in the project come from different fields of knowledge and they will provide a new vision of power generation: responsive, flexible and adaptative whatever the grid conditions are.

More information about FASTAP

You can find all the advances of the project in its site.

In this video we summarise what FASTAP is, its objectives and work plan.