GE equips three electrical offshore platforms
France, Paris: Over the past three months, three offshore electrical platforms with GE Grid Solutions’ technology have successfully sailed out.
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France, Paris: Over the past three months, three offshore electrical platforms with GE Grid Solutions’ technology have successfully sailed out.
GE Grid Solutions’ Alternating Current (AC) Systems division in charge of turnkey projects is leading the project management, design, system integration, installation and commissioning of high-voltage electrical systems that have sailed out from ports in France, Belgium and the Netherlands to be installed at sea.
First to set sail on 22 May was the offshore topside platform for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, 19 km off the Fife coast in Scotland, UK. In total, the project will include four power transformers, four reactors, the static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), power quality components, and gas insulated switchgear (GIS) — at 66 kV, 220 kV and 400 kV — as well as protection and control, SCADA, and telecommunications systems.
On 30 June, an offshore substation for the offshore wind farm, 16 km off the coast of Brittany in France, sailed out from Antwerp in Belgium. The platform was installed on its jacket on 7 July in St Brieuc, France.
The third sail-away on 22 July was destined for the offshore wind farm, 13 km off the coast of Fécamp in France.
The Fécamp wind farm is expected to be operational in 2023 and will offset two million tons of CO2 and provide enough electricity to fulfil the domestic power consumption of around 770,000 people.
“This is an exciting time at GE’s Grid Solutions as we help connect three new offshore winds farms to the grid. These substations will play a central role by collecting the electricity produced by the wind turbines and increasing the voltage, through power transformers, to limit energy losses when the energy gets transferred to the coast,” explained Philippe Hartheiser, AC Turnkey Business Leader for Europe, Russia & CIS at GE Grid Solutions. “We are proud to work with our customers to integrate more renewable energy on to the grid.”
Source: GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions
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