Substations Installed at Biggest Approved Offshore Wind Park

Two substations that transform and export electricity generated by wind turbines have been installed at the London Array offshore wind farm being developed in the U.K. by Dong Energy A/S, EON AG and Masdar.

The offshore substations will convert electricity produced by windmills in the outer Thames Estuary to as much as 150,000 volts, according to a statement on the project’s website. That power is then exported to the substation onshore where the voltage is increased again and fed into the grid.

The 1-gigawatt London Array project backed by Dong, the Danish energy company, Germany’s EON and the Abu Dhabi government-owned renewable energy company Masdar is the world’s largest approved wind farm at sea, according to the project’s website. Able to power 750,000 homes, it’s being built as the U.K. government strives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions linked to climate change.

The installation of the substations weighing more than 1,260 metric tons each is a “real sign of progress” for the project whose first phase should be complete by the end of next year, Richard Rigg, project director at London Array, said in the statement.

To contact the reporter on this story: Sally Bakewell in London at sbakewell1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Reed Landberg at landberg@bloomberg.net

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