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Chantiers de l’Atlantique has completed the construction and integration of two offshore electrical substations for the 660 MW Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm, currently under construction off the German coast.
Each of the topsides is approximately 40 metres long and 22 metres high, with one weighing about 1,800 tonnes, while the other one comes in at around 2,500 tonnes.
The substations will depart Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France, by the end of the month and set sail to the Nordseecluster A site in the North Sea, around 50 kilometres north of the German island of Juist, where the foundations for the two substations have already been installed.
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