#offshore substation

Ocean Winds and SeaRenergy Poland have signed a contract to prepare a conceptual design, construction permit design documentation and obtain a permit an offshore substation.

The construction of the offshore substation for Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms in Taiwan has started.

Avangrid has finalized the first offshore substation in the U.S. that is part of its Vineyard Wind 1 project.

PGE Group and Ørsted have signed an agreement with PTSC M&C consortium for the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm substations in Poland.

Norway: Norwegian companies, Arendals Fossekompani, Kongsberg, and Moreld, have joined forces on the Hydepoint project.

USA, Connecticut: Engineering consultancy Kent was awarded the design contract for the offshore substation for Avangrid Renewables’ Park City Wind project.

Germany: Baltic Eagle GmbH has contracted Heerema Marine Contractors installation of the offshore substation (OSS) for the Baltic Eagle Offshore Windfarm.

Taiwan: The team working at Ørsted’s 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a wind farms has completed power-on tests on the project’s second offshore substation.

Ailes Marines has selected GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions to provide the main electrical equipment for the Saint-Brieuc Bay wind farm’s substation.

Spanish electricity company Iberdrola has awarded contracts for the construction of an offshore substation in the English Channel.

The last the Moray East substations left the fabrication yard and sailed away to its offshore location in the UK North Sea over the weekend.

Malaysian steel fabricator Eversendai Corporation has secured two offshore wind substation contracts from Petrofac worth a combined $44 M (RM186 M, €38.7 M).

The Borssele Beta offshore substation topside has sailed out from HSM Offshore’s yard in Schiedam to the installation site in the Dutch North Sea, TenneT said.

Belgium: The second SeaMade offshore substation topside has been installed in the Seastar concession area in the Belgian North Sea.

Belgium: The first offshore substation transition piece and J-tube cage for the 487 MW Seamade offshore wind farm off Belgium are being transported to the Sif terminal in Rotterdam in the Netherlands ahead of installation.

UK: Race Bank Wind Farm Limited, a joint venture owned by Ørsted (50%), Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 (25%), a fund established by Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Development Bank of Japan (12.5%) and Arjun Infrastructure Partners and Gravis Capital Management (12.5%), announced that it has signed an agreement for the sale of its transmission assets to Diamond Transmission Partners.

Vineyard Wind has selected Denmark’s Bladt Industries to build and deliver the offshore substation for what is expected to be first utility-scale offshore wind farm in the U.S.

Germany: Northland Power has completed installation of the offshore substation for the 269 MW Deutsche Bucht wind farm in the German North Sea.

Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, commissioned its first offshore substation in Ilashe Island, Oriade Local Government Development Area, in Lagos State.

Germany: GE has completed its first offshore HVDC project, DolWin gamma converter platform, for the transmission system operator TenneT.

United Kingdom: Danish utility Dong Energy has secured approval from the UK government for the development of the $7.8 billion Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm in the North Sea.

Denmark, Fredericia: Energinet.dk has been granted permission for $577 million investment into a grid connection for the 600 MW Kriegers Flak wind farm in the Baltic Sea off Denmark.