Safety First
The common name for your fall arrest device.
What is a LADSAF?
The commonly used term for the stopping sequence of a wind turbine after an alarm.
What is a breaking procedure?
The value of the Betz Limit.
What is 16/27 or 0.593?
The oldest wind turbines in the Avangrid fleet are located in this wind farm.
What is Phoenix?
The upper limit for direct purchase orders (i.e. that do NOT require a tender).
What is $10,000?
The number of years your Fall Protection and Rescue is valid.
What is two (2) years?
The alarm on the GE 1.5 which refers to high tower vibration.
What is 177?
The term for the reduction in wind speed in front a wind turbine.
What is the axial induction factor?
The first GE 1.5 MW site.
What is Klondike 1?
The instrument that allows for purchase orders with a vendor without repeating the RFP process.
What is a Framework Agreement?
The most common wind speed limit for nacelle access.
What is 20 m/s?
The state a turbine is in when the turbine is ready produce but there is not enough wind.
What is draft, ready, or runup?
A key aerodynamic property of a wind turbine commonly referred to using the greek letter lambda.
What is tip speed ratio?
The first turbine fire which Avangrid ever experienced was in this wind farm.
What is Locust Ridge 1?
The meaning of the acronym COD.
What is Commercial Operations Date?
What is the minimum approach distance for a live 690V AC circuit
What is thirteen (13) inches?
If you want to STOP a turbine immediately, you would hit this button.
What is the e-stop?
The rated power (with boost) of the Haliade X machines at Vineyard Wind.
What is 13.6 MW?
The name of the company before it was purchased by the Iberdrola Group.
What is PPM Energy?
Energy that is generated before a new plant reaches its Commercial Operations Date.
What is test Energy?
The important safety metric commonly referred to using the letters TRIR.
What is Total Recordable Incident/Injury Rate?
The description for this Gamesa alarm "Low brake circuit pressure" is not correct.
What is 202?
The ratio of actual energy output to the maximum possible energy out of a wind turbine.
What is the capacity factor?
The original name of the San Luis solar site in Colorado.
What is Alamosa?
The company buying the energy produced at the Camino solar project.
What is Microsoft?