Posted on August 12, 2021
The installation of the world’s largest offshore converter station is being hailed by China Classification Society (CCS) as ‘a significant milestone’ in the development of deep-water wind power.
CCS provided authentication and survey services for the China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG) Rudong offshore converter station, which is also an Asian first.
CCS’ expert team has been involved throughout the design, construction, transportation, installation, and commissioning stages of the pioneering project.
CCS says the facility effectively addresses the challenges of large capacity and long-distance power transmission presented by offshore wind farms. Rudong is the first offshore 400kV+ wind power flexible DC transmission project in China. The station will be used to collect 1,100MW of electric energy from three windfarms (H6, H8, H10) in the Jiangsu Rudong project in China’s Yellow Sea.
The station will then convert the electricity into DC power and transmit it onshore, a distance of around 100km, the longest transmission length in China, via a submarine cable.
The converter station itself weighs 22,000 tons and is as tall as a 15-storey residential building.
