Iberdrola, through its British subsidiary ScottishPower Renewables, has completed the installation of the offshore converter station at the wind farm East Anglia THREEwind farm, marking a technical and logistical breakthrough in its largest offshore wind project to date.
HVDC converter station ready to energize homes
This 10,700-ton, 48-meter-high platform adopts HVDC technology and HVDC (high voltage direct current) (High Voltage Direct Current) technology, a solution that allows electric power to be transported over long distances with minimal loss. Its installation was made possible by the crane ship the world’s most powerful crane ship, the SSCV Sleipnirwhich carried out the operation after final assembly of the module in Norway.
The station will play a fundamental role: it will receive the electricity generated by the 95 marine turbines and transform it from alternating current to direct current to facilitate its transport to the mainland. The park will have a generating capacity of 1,400 megawatts, enough to supply more than 2.4 million people in the United Kingdom when it comes on line in 2026.
Located 69 kilometers off the coast of Suffolk, East Anglia THREE is part of a massive-scale wind farm complex driven by Iberdrola in the North Sea.East Anglia THREE is part of a massive-scale wind farm complex being developed by Iberdrola in the North Sea. The scale of this infrastructure reflects the combined engineering, manufacturing and transportation effort involved in a project of this scale.
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