Danish company KK Wind Solutions, which specialises in control systems for wind turbines — electronics that go into controlling the operations of a wind turbine — has entered the Indian market. It will manufacture and sell ‘low voltage ride through’ (LVRT) devices, which are essential for maintaining grid stability.
According to The Hindu, the company’s CTO-cum-COO, Rene Balle, sees a big opportunity in India because LVRT has been made mandatory. (LVRT are devices that ensure that a wind turbine, or even a wind farm, stays connected to the grid even if there is a short-term (milliseconds) voltage drop. Earlier, it did not matter much if a wind farm went off-grid for some milliseconds, but now, with wind’s contribution to the power in the grid increasing, any disconnection of the generating units from the grid could cause the grid itself to collapse. As such, LVRT has been made mandatory.)
The £200-million KK Wind Solutions’ foray into the Indian market is through a tie-up with Bengaluru-based Enerfra Projects, a company founded by UB Reddy, a wind industry veteran who had earlier worked for Mytrah Energy and Enercon.
