NORTH SEA, THE NETHERLANDS - The Borssele Alpha offshore transformer station built at a cost of $442 million is ready to connect 700 MW of energy from wind turbines in the Dutch North Sea to the mainland.

The power will be connected through TenneT's offshore connection Borssele Alpha to the onshore high voltage substation near Borssele for further transport in the high-voltage grid.  For this purpose, a new substation has been built next to the existing 380 kV Borssele high voltage substation.

Borssele Alpha is TenneT's first and at the same time largest connection system for wind farms on the Dutch North Sea.

Borssele Alpha offshore substation is the first of five transformer stations of the same model which the Dutch grid operator plans to install by 2023.

Source: TenneT