Onsite PD Testing of Cast-Resin Transformers in Wind Farms

Mathieu Lachance and Dr. Alexander Kraetge, OMICRON electronicsCover Story, Fall 2021 Cover Story

Installed wind power capacity in the United States has been growing at an incredible pace during the last two decades. In the middle of 2020, the total American wind power capacity was nearly 110,000 MW with over 60,000 turbines installed (Figure 1). It is known that power equipment used to connect renewables faces very specific and increased stress when sources of …