Germany approves BorWin transmission project
The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has approved the offshore grid connection system for TenneT’s BorWin5 and BorWin epsilon in the North Sea.
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Germany, Berlin: The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has approved the offshore grid connection system for TenneT’s BorWin5 and BorWin epsilon in the North Sea.
This is the last project to be implemented based on the specifications of the Federal Offshore Plan 2017 for the North Sea. The area development plan, which has been creating the conditions for an orderly and synchronous expansion of offshore wind and the associated grid connections since 2019, applies to all upcoming projects.
The planning approval decision covers the BorWin epsilon converter platform and the submarine transmission cable BorWin5, which will connect the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm to the grid. The platform will be in the middle of the site around 100 km north-west of Norderney and 10 km east of the existing Bard Offshore 1 project.
The wind farm supplies 66 kV three-phase current directly to the converter platform via submarine cables without its own transformer platform, and the area development plan is currently being updated to meet the government’s expansion target of 70 GW of offshore wind energy by 2045.
Source: renews.biz
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