HVDC BorWin1

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The HVDC BorWin1 is the first high-voltage direct current transmission link in Germany, whose plants is equipped with insulated gate bipolar electrode ( IGBT). It serves to connect the offshore wind farm " BARD Offshore 1 " in the North Sea to the European grid.

The line whose end points immediately to the west are the wind park in the North Sea on the purpose-built converter platform " BorWin Alpha" and on land of 380 kV substation in hall, consists of a 75 -kilometer natural gas and a 125 -kilometer submarine cable, which runs through the south-eastern North Sea and through the Wadden Sea (Island of Norderney to Hilgenriedersiel ).

Construction and operation of the submarine cable in the North Sea within the German Exclusive Economic Zone were the responsible Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency ( BSH), approved on 1 July 2009.

Built by TenneT TSO GmbH and ABB system can transmit a maximum power of 400 MW at a symmetric operating voltage of 150 kV.

In contrast to most other HVDC systems are located in the converter station hall almost all components of the system in the converter hall, which is 74 m long, 38 m wide and 14 m high.

Parallel to the location of the BorWin -1 cable were held in May 2012 cable laying work for HVDC BorWin 2, should bind another wind farm cluster. The work in the open North Sea were carried out by the pipelay vessel " Giulio Verne ".