TenneT’s Borssele Beta substation topside has sailed away from HSM Offshore’s Schiedam yard for installation off the Dutch coast.
The 3650-tonne platform, which will export power from the Blauwind consortium’s over 731MW Borssele 3&4 project off the Netherlands, will be installed by crane vessel Seaway Strashnov.
It will be installed onto a jacket foundation installed by Seaway 7 last year.
Tennet said the 700MW unit will be fully commissioned by 1 September.
The Borssele Beta platform is equipped with radar and various ecological and meteorological monitoring systems as part of a data collection project, the transmission system operator said.
Information collected along the entire Dutch coastal area will help inform future offshore wind development.