Case Studies

National Grid South Manchester LVAC Renewal
Now this was a big one! New WARDPOWER Generating Set, new LVAC Board, Complete re-cabling of the site, replacement of the main transformer connections and lots more besides, all in 5 months and never make the site black: Time to pull your pants over your trousers Mr WARDPOWER …
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Generators for Offshore Wind Farms
Since 2003 WARDPOWER offered a variety of platform Generating Sets for use on Offshore Windfarms. And no, it requires a bit more than making it a bit more rainproof Mr Competitor!
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Empower
2008 presented a new opportunity for WARDPOWER to demonstrate the breadth of their skill base with a venture into the world of switchgear modules and Heavy Fuel Oil transportable emergency power stations…
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BNFL Chapelcross
Now we at WARDPOWER are good at the unusual and the complicated – it’s what we do – but when we took on the contract to supply 4 x 800KVA sets for British Nuclear Fuel’s Chapelcross even we didn’t anticipate what a school day it would turn out to be…
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National Grid Enderby 400KV Substation
When the Generating Set at NG Enderby came up for replacement, NG decided that for operational resilience reasons, this unit was to receive extra attention. Also a prototype for Type Registration and the new NG TS 3.12.3 Issue 7, the result was a set with quite a few new bells and whistles…
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National Grid Kearsley 275KV Substation
Summer 2006 provided WARDPOWER with an opportunity to demonstrate an unquestionable level of design expertise, project management, testing and absolute determination in the extension of the LVAC scheme at NG Kearsley 275kV Substation…
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National Grid Canterbury 400KV Substation
Carried out 2006/07, the LVAC works at National Grid (NG) Canterbury North Sub station provided WARDPOWER with an opportunity to demonstrate first class Project Management and Scheme Design Skills as well as the supremely high engineering that National Grid were already used to…
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