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ABB installs world's most powerful offshore converter platform in the North Sea

Zurich, Switzerland

The 320-kilovolt converter station, housed on an offshore platform, has a 916 megawatts (MW) power transmission capacity, making it the world's most powerful installation of its kind, enough to power more than 1,000,000 households with clean energy.

The offshore converter station is part of the DolWin2 project which will be operated by transmission system operator TenneT and will connect offshore wind farms in the North Sea



Source: IWR Online, 11 Aug 2015

 


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