The platform transforms AC current fed in from the wind farms into DC current for transmission onto land.

Commissioning of HelWin 1 is scheduled for the second half of 2014.

"With the installation of our platform at sea we have successfully mastered the most critical part of this project and are now in the final stretch for commissioning in 2014,“ says Karlheinz Springer, chief executive of the Power Transmission Division within the Energy Sector of Siemens AG.

Transmission