World’s first unmanned HVDC offshore substation installed
UK: Hareema Marine Contractors has installed the world's first unmanned HVDC offshore substation at the Dogger Bank wind farm project in the UK North Sea.
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UK: Hareema Marine Contractors has installed the world’s first unmanned HVDC offshore substation at the Dogger Bank wind farm project in the UK North Sea.
The substation is the first of three platforms, supplied by Aibel, to be installed at Dogger Bank, which is being constructed in three 1.2 GW phases known as A, B and C, and which will, once operational, be the world’s largest offshore wind farm.
“The innovative offshore platform has a lean design and is the first unmanned HVDC platform which will be operated from shore and accessed only by a Service Operations Vessel. The platform will receive 1.2 GW of AC power from Dogger Bank A’s 95 offshore wind turbines and convert it to DC, which will then be sent ashore to an onshore converter station near Beverley in East Riding of Yorkshire,” SSE Renewables, a partner in the Dogger Bank project, explained.
Fitted with Hitachi Energy‘s latest generation HVDC converter technology, Dogger Bank will be the first offshore wind project in the UK to use this technology to transmit the electricity produced back to shore, ensuring that the electricity is transmitted efficiently over long distances while minimizing losses, the company said.
Source Offshore Engineer
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