The 101-metre-long and 74-metre-wide rig is scheduled to transform the alternating current (AC) power coming from several offshore wind parks in the DolWin2 cluster into direct current (DC) from 2015 on.

DC power can be transported more easily and with less energy losses to land via 45 kilometres of submarine and 90 kms of on-land cables to another transformer station on land.

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