Swiss outfit ABB is to supply transformers specially-designed for floating wind turbines to MHI Vestas for the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic project off Portugal.
The WindStar transformers will be installed on the three 8.4MW turbines, which will make up the floating project to be located 20km off the coast of Viana de Castel.
ABB said the units have been specifically engineered to be extra resilient against strong vibrations and extreme and sudden movements encountered on floating wind farms.
The 66kV transformers are all designed to fit into the tower of offshore turbines, it added.
WindFloat Atlantic is scheduled to come into operation in 2019.
ABB transformers business managing director Markus Heimbach said: “These transformers are another pioneering ABB technology innovation which will facilitate the integration of more renewables into the grid.
“ABB technologies continue to shape the evolving grid with solutions that help run the world without consuming the earth.”