Prysmian Group has announced the commissioning of the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore grid connection project SylWin1 realised off the North Sea coast of Germany in a contract with the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT.
Prysmian secured this project in January 2011 as part of overall contracts awarded to consortia between the Group and Siemens Energy for the grid connection of offshore wind farms to the mainland. SylWin1 now links the offshore wind parks DanTysk and Butendiek, followed by Sandbank, located about 160 km offshore, to the mainland Germany passing to the east of Helgoland and continuing along a 45 km land route to the land converter station in Büttel, north-west of Hamburg and is now ready to start commercial operations.