#50Hertz

50Hertz has awarded a consortium of Dragados Offshore and Siemens Energy a contract for the delivery of converters for the LanWin3 North Sea grid connection project.

The four German transmission system operators are launching an innovation partnership with industrial partners Siemens Energy, GE Vernova and Hitachi Energy.

50Hertz has inaugurated Europe’s largest solar power plant, the 650 MWp Witznitz Energy Park south of Leipzig.

The funds will be used for overhead power lines, on- and offshore cables, substations and other technologies.

German maritime authority BSH has approved two offshore grid connection projects to deliver power from up to 1.2 GW of turbine capacity in the North Sea and Baltic Sea.

Germany, Berlin: Electricity transmission operators in Germany estimate the electricity consumption in the country will be doubled by 2045.

Germany: Iberdrola has announced the completion of the offshore substation topside (OSS) installation at its 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm.

SPIE and 50Hertz continue their power supply partnership, this time on restructuring and upgrading the the Bad Lauchstädt transformer station in Saxony-Anhalt.

50Hertz has selected the Dutch-Belgian joint venture to deliver the Ostwind 3 offshore HV substation in the Baltic Sea.

Germany, Bad Lauchstädt: The transmission grid operator 50Hertz will expand its substation near Bad Lauchstädt in southern Saxony-Anhalt.

Germany: Transmission system operator 50Hertz has announced that the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore substation has been connected to the German extra-high voltage grid.

Denmark: Hitachi Energy’s hybrid solution for offshore wind celebrates its first year propelling Denmark and Germany’s energy transition.

Belgian grid operator Elia and its German counterpart 50Hertz have issued a tender for transformers and related equipment for offshore wind substations.

The construction of the upper part of the offshore substation for the Arcadis 1 Ost offshore wind farm has kicked off

50Hertz has connected the offshore wind farms Wikinger and Arkona off the island of Rügen in the German Baltic Sea to its transmission grid.

Germany’s four transmission grid operators have published their proposal for the 2030 electricity grid, including 1,600 kilometres of new power lines and updating another 2,900 km. The cost of this proposal is estimated to be $ 59 billion.

Germany: German state-owned bank KfW has agreed to acquire 20% stake in Eurogrid International, the holding company of German transmission system operator (TSO) 50Hertz, on behalf of the German Federal Government.

Germany: German grid operator 50Hertz will be installing phase-shifting transformers on Germany’s borders with Poland and the Czech Republic to regulate the power flow and reduce loop flows via these countries.