Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2023
Work begins on BorWin kappa
The first steel has now been cut on the BorWin kappa converter platform at a shipyard in Jebel Ali, UAE. The converter station is a key link in connecting BorWin6, due on stream in 2027, with a grid connection capacity of 980 MW. The project involves high-voltage direct current transmission from the offshore wind farm to the extra-high-voltage grid in Büttel, Schleswig-Holstein. The energy produced off the coast of Lower Saxony will be fed to TenneT’s BorWin kappa converter platform, where it will be converted to direct current for transmission to the Büttel converter station....