Wind projects require careful coordination among resource, land, permitting, interconnection, construction, and operating considerations.
TransGlobe Power
Wind Energy
Resource and site development
A wind project begins with a credible understanding of the resource, site conditions, land position, environmental constraints, access, and grid opportunity.
Site and wind-resource screening
Land and stakeholder coordination
Environmental and permitting review
Interconnection and market planning
Preconstruction planning
Turbine logistics, roads, foundations, collection systems, substations, cranes, weather, and schedule interfaces must be addressed before field execution.
Construction coordination
Delivery depends on alignment across civil work, electrical systems, turbine supply, transportation, erection, testing, and grid interconnection.
Operations and maintenance
Availability, safety, inspection, preventive maintenance (PM), corrective response, parts planning, and performance review shape long-term asset results.
Resource and siting
Wind economics are decided by the resource and the terrain before any equipment decision is made. Measurement campaigns, long-term reference correlation and turbulence characterisation determine what a site can produce and which turbine class it can support.
Met mast or lidar campaign with long-term reference correlation
Wind shear, turbulence intensity and extreme-wind classification
Wake modelling across the proposed layout
Setbacks from dwellings, roads, boundaries and infrastructure
Shadow flicker and noise assessment against local limits
Delivery and logistics
Wind components are among the hardest loads to move by road. Blade length, nacelle mass and crane pads shape the access design, and a route survey that happens late is one of the most common causes of programme slip.
Transport route survey, including turning radii and bridge capacity
Crane pad design and hardstanding requirements
Foundation design matched to verified geotechnical conditions
Delivery sequencing against turbine erection windows
FAQ
Common questions
Clear answers
What to know about wind energy .
What makes wind development different from solar development?+
Wind projects typically have distinct resource-measurement, turbine-logistics, visual, wildlife, road, crane, foundation, and collection-system requirements.
When should construction planning begin?+
Construction input should begin during development because transportation routes, crane access, foundation conditions, equipment choices, and seasonal constraints can influence feasibility and schedule.
What is the purpose of wind-asset maintenance planning?+
The goal is to support safe operation, equipment availability, rapid issue response, documented service, and informed lifecycle decisions.
How long does a wind measurement campaign take?+
Typically 12 months minimum to capture a full seasonal cycle, correlated against a long-term reference to reduce uncertainty in the production estimate. Shorter campaigns increase uncertainty and are usually discounted by financing parties.
What usually limits a wind site?+
Most often transport access or setback constraints rather than the wind resource itself. A good resource on a site that cannot receive blades, or cannot meet noise limits at the nearest dwelling, is not a project.
Do you work on repowering existing wind sites?+
Yes. Repowering brings its own questions — existing interconnection capacity, foundation reuse, permit amendments and the treatment of the original equipment — and those are assessed before a technology decision is made.