Petrofac and Hitachi Vitality have introduced the award of a second challenge underneath a US$14 billion, multi-year framework settlement with TenneT – the Dutch-German Transmission System Operator – to increase offshore wind capability within the North Sea.
This second contract is for Nederwiek 1, a Dutch transmission station which kinds a part of TenneT’s landmark 2 GW programme. The challenge is to be executed as a standalone challenge, with Petrofac’s portion of the second contract valued at round US$1.4 billion.
Underneath the phrases of the settlement, we’ll undertake the EPCI of offshore platforms and parts of the onshore converter stations whereas Hitachi Vitality, as international know-how associate, will provide its HVDC converter stations, which convert AC to DC energy offshore and DC to AC onshore.
Since we introduced the framework settlement in January, we’ve been collaborating intently with Hitachi Vitality on preparatory works, reserving manufacturing capability for a number of platforms and HVDC know-how and initiating the detailed design course of for the primary platform awarded underneath the settlement, Ijmuiden Ver Alpha.
Extra tasks inside TenneT’s 2 GW programme are anticipated to be awarded at roughly six-month intervals. These are the grid connections touchdown at Geertruidenberg or Moerdijk (Nederwiek 3) and Eemshaven (Doordewind 1 and Doordewind 2). The sixth challenge, the German connection LanWin5, might be linked close to Rastede, Germany.
John Pearson, Chief Working Officer (COO), Vitality Transition Initiatives, Petrofac, stated: “We now have been collaborating with our associate Hitachi Vitality, and consumer TenneT, on the primary challenge, Ijmuiden Ver Alpha. The award of Nederwiek 1 continues our give attention to the standardisation and harmonisation of design and execution that might be central to the ‘design one, construct many’ philosophy of the two GW pro-gramme. By aligning ourselves with TenneT’s goals, we’re making a blueprint for the speedy deployment of large-scale infrastructure tasks essential to Europe’s vitality transition.”
Niklas Persson, Managing Director of Hitachi Vitality’s Grid Integration enterprise added: “As a pioneering know-how and market chief, we’re delighted to collaborate to ship our HVDC answer for Nederwiek 1, combining world-class vitality and digital programs. Our robust collaboration with Petrofac, primarily based on an agile enterprise mannequin, scalable options and synergies amongst tasks, permits us to affix forces and help TenneT in its ambition to speed up offshore wind deployment within the North Sea, granting European residents extra sustainable and dependable energy.”
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