WATCH: DolWin Beta Platform Departs Norway for German North Sea

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The DolWin beta excessive voltage AC/DC energy converter platform seen crusing out from Haugesund, Norway on August 1, 2015 on its strategy to the German sector of the North Sea, the place it can home the converter station for a big wind farm cluster.

Once in place, the semi-submersible platform shall be positioned on the seabed and obtain alternating present from wind farms, changing it into direct present earlier than sending it onshore through subsea cables.

The hyperlink can have the capability to transmit 916 megawatts (MW) of fresh energy into the German grid from three wind farms with a complete of 240 generators.

The platform is a collaboration between Aibel and ABB, with Aibel offering the design and ABB dealing with total mission duty over the mission and supplying cables and the conversion gear. The platform was constructed at Drydocks World yard in Dubai.

The platform arrived in Haugesund in August 2014 for outfitting of the topsides electrical processing gear.

The DolWin beta additionally has a separate dwelling quarters for twenty-four folks, a helipad and two lifting cranes.