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In April 2023, the world's first unmanned HVDC offshore converter platform was installed at Dogger Bank A by Saipem using the heavy-lift vessel Thialf. The platform, measuring 65 x 36 metres and 39 metres high, sits on a four-legged steel jacket foundation at approximately 28 m water depth. Fitted with Hitachi Energy's HVDC Light converter technology, it receives 1.2 GW of AC power from turbines, converts it to DC, and transmits it to the Creyke Beck onshore converter station via the 320 kV HVDC export cables.