ABB has won an order worth around US$ 1 billion from the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT to supply a power link connecting offshore North Sea wind farms to the German mainland grid.
ABB will deploy an offshore HVDC (high-voltage direct current) system with a rating of over 900MW. ABB will design, engineer, supply and install the offshore platform, the offshore and onshore converter stations and the land and sea cable systems. ABB's HVDC Light transmission technology will transport power from the 400MW Gode Wind II and other wind farms to an offshore HVDC converter station, which will transmit the electricity to the onshore HVDC station at Dörpen on the German coast via 135 kilometers of underwater and underground cables. A converter station here will feed electricity into the mainland grid. The power link is scheduled to be operational in 2015.
ABB will deploy an offshore HVDC (high-voltage direct current) system with a rating of over 900MW. ABB will design, engineer, supply and install the offshore platform, the offshore and onshore converter stations and the land and sea cable systems. ABB's HVDC Light transmission technology will transport power from the 400MW Gode Wind II and other wind farms to an offshore HVDC converter station, which will transmit the electricity to the onshore HVDC station at Dörpen on the German coast via 135 kilometers of underwater and underground cables. A converter station here will feed electricity into the mainland grid. The power link is scheduled to be operational in 2015.
