Hitachi Energy wins contract for sub-sea power transmission network
Switzerland, Zurich: Hitachi Energy has announced winning a major order from Samsung C&T Corporation, a leading global engineering and construction company.
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Switzerland, Zurich: Hitachi Energy has announced winning a major order from Samsung C&T Corporation, a leading global engineering and construction company.
The project comprises the connection of ADNOC’s (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) offshore operations to the onshore power grid in the United Arab Emirates owned and operated by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA).
Hitachi Energy will use HVDC Light® technology and MACH™ digital control platform to enable the transfer of cleaner and more efficient power from the mainland to power ADNOC’s offshore production operations, enabling a carbon footprint reduction of ADNOC’s offshore operations by more than thirty percent.
With a capacity of 3,200 MW, the two HVDC links will be by far the most powerful power-from-shore solution in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to date. It is also the first HVDC power-from-shore solution outside Norwegian waters.
“We are proud to be enabling Abu Dhabi and ADNOC to make significant progress on their pathway toward achieving the United Arab Emirates’ ambition to be carbon-neutral by 2050,” said Claudio Facchin, CEO of Hitachi Energy. He continued, “At Hitachi Energy we are championing the urgency of the clean energy transition, and this major order is further evidence that we are a ‘go to’ partner for developing and deploying technologies and solutions that are advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible and secure.
The company is supplying four converter stations, which convert AC power to DC for transmission in the subsea cables, then reconvert it to AC from DC for use in the offshore power systems.
Source: Hitachi Energy
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