The platform was a collaboration project between Aibel and ABB. Aibel has designed and built the platform, whilst ABB had the overall project responsibility and supplied cables and the conversion equipment.
DolWin beta is a submersible floating platform and was built for a large wind farm cluster near Helgoland in the German sector of the North Sea. It receives alternating current from wind farms, and converts it into direct current before sending it onshore via subsea cables.
The actual construction was carried out in Dubai before the platform arrived in Norway in August 2014. The project was managed from Aibel’s office in Haugesund, and the platform was towed from the yard and out to the DolWin field in the summer 2015.