Hitachi Energy and Petrofac’s 2nd project to support TenneT’s 2GW Program
Hitachi Energy and Petrofac will work together to deliver Nederwiek 1 and integrate offshore wind at scale into the Dutch grid.
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Switzerland, Zürich: Hitachi Energy and Petrofac will work together to deliver Nederwiek 1 and integrate offshore wind at scale into the Dutch grid.
Hitachi Energy and Petrofac have announced the award of the second project under their multi-year Framework Agreement, worth more than $14 billion with TenneT, the Dutch-German transmission system operator to expand offshore wind capacity in the North Sea. The companies will work together to deliver Nederwiek 1, a Dutch transmission system that is part of TenneT’s 2GW Program, which consists of several high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore grid connection systems with a transmission capacity of 2 GW.
In an announcement earlier this year, the companies reported the award of the six-project Framework Agreement, under which Hitachi Energy will supply its HVDC converter stations while Petrofac will undertake the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) of offshore platforms and elements of the onshore converter stations. Alongside the Framework Agreement came the award of the first project covered by the agreement, Ijmuiden Ver Alpha.
Since their initial announcement, the companies’ teams have collaborated on the preparatory works, reserving production capacity in line with their new business model approach for HVDC technology and the platforms, and initiating the detailed design process for Ijmuiden Ver Alpha. Early work for Nederwiek 1 is expected to start imminently.
Additional projects within the 2GW Program are expected to be awarded approximately at six-month intervals. These are the grid connections landing at Geertruidenberg or Moerdijk (Nederwiek 3) and Eemshaven (Doordewind 1 and Doordewind 2). The sixth project, the German connection LanWin5, will be connected near Rastede, Germany.
Source: Hitachi Energy