ABB has won an order from MHI Vestas Offshore Wind for the supply of its compact WindSTAR transformers for installation in wind turbines in the North Sea.

Under the project, 100 transformers manufactured in the transformer factory in Vaasa, Finland, will be supplied for Moray Offshore Renewable Power's Moray East offshore wind project, the company stated in the press release.

The 295 square kilometer windfarm will contain wind turbines up to 670 foot (204 meters) tall to the turbine's blade-tip, each with the capacity to generate 9.5 MW of electricity at 66 kilovolts. This will be made possible by the transformers that are compact enough to be placed inside the wind turbine.

The windfarm will have a capacity to generate 950 MW of renewable wind power in Moray Firth (an inlet of the North Sea) off the coast of Scotland, and be capable of providing enough clean energy to power up to a million households.

Source: ABB