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HVDC BorWin1 - BorWin Alpha Static Inverter Plant

HVDC BorWin1 is the first HVDC facility in the world to be built for importing power from an offshore wind park to shore, and the first to use voltage source converters in .
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  • Type: Electrical substation
  • Description: offshore HVDC converter platform in the German North Sea
  • Also known as: “BorWin alpha” and “BorWin Alpha”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include BorWin beta and BARD Offshore 1.

Electrical substation
Photo: kees torn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an electrical substation.

Power station
Photo: A lot of wind, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a 400 megawatt offshore wind farm with 80 BARD 5.0 turbines. Since the owner could not buy such 5MW offshore wind turbines in sufficient numbers in 2006, Dr. is situated 3 km west of HVDC BorWin1 - BorWin Alpha Static Inverter Plant.

HVDC BorWin1 - BorWin Alpha Static Inverter Plant

Latitude
54.35417° or 54° 21′ 15″ north
Longitude
6.02501° or 6° 1′ 30″ east
Inception
2013
Operator
BARD Engineering
Open location code
9F68923G+M2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1801025870
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­offshore_platform
Geo­Names ID
7283998
Wiki­data ID
Q823183
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From Dutch to Ukrainian—“HVDC BorWin1 - BorWin Alpha Static Inverter Plant” goes by many names.

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