Boskalis has transported the DolWin Epsilon platform with its semi-submersible heavy transport vessel Mighty Servant 1. On 5 January, the 23,000-tonne high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter platform arrived in Haugesund, Norway.
The platform will transmit the wind-generated electricity from several German offshore wind farms to the onshore power grid. It will have a transmission capacity of 900 megawatts, equivalent to supplying 1.1 million households with green wind power.
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Modified for transport
Boskalis‘ Mighty Servant 1 has been specially modified for the transport of the green energy converter. At crucial points, the deck has been widened with four outriggers, which support the four massive columns of the DolWin Epsilon.
The vessel spent more than two months at sea after having left Seatrium’s yard in Singapore on 15 October. In the next couple of days, the platform will be floated off the Mighty Servant 1 transport vessel and placed at quayside. Here, Aibel and partner Hitachi Energy will start the final installation of electrical equipment and commissioning.
DolWin Epsilon is expected to leave Haugesund next summer heading for the German North Sea and delivery to the client TenneT.
Picture by Boskalis.
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