OMICRON Magazine

Magazine | Issue 2 2019 POWERFUL aND COMPaCT An innovative solution for GIS testing “Borkum Riffgrund 2” – an offshore wind turbine located 57 km | 35,4mi north-west of the German coast, is set to receive two specially de- veloped pieces of gas-insulated switchgear (GIS). OMICRON has worked in close collaboration with Siemens AG Berlin – manufacturers of switchgear and voltage transform- ers – in order to develop the perfect solution for this challenging project. Challenges lead to new solutions “A powerful and compact system was essential to this project – in fact, that’s what made it possible in the first place,” René Müller, Project Manager at Siemens, tells us in our interview about testing gas- insulated switchgear. René Müller was responsible for testing the GIS system on-site in the port of Rotterdam. His job was to make sure that the high-voltage tests being done in collaboration with OMICRON were running smoothly. The two GIS units that were spe- cially developed by Siemens, were transported from Berlin to the wind farm operator in Rotterdam for final inspection. “We were actually able to solve a space problem inside of 9

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