Borssele Beta offshore substation topside touches down
The Netherlands: The Borssele Beta offshore substation topside has been installed at the project site in the Dutch North Sea.
The Netherlands: The Borssele Beta offshore substation topside has been installed at the project site in the Dutch North Sea.
The BorWin3 offshore wind grid connection project in the German North Sea has been successfully handed over to the transmission grid operator TenneT.
TenneT has launched a market consultation to help support the development of connection systems for offshore wind farms in waters off the Netherlands and Germany.
TenneT and local politicians inaugurated a substation in Germany’s Hessen region.
Germany: Jacobs has been appointed separately by transmission system operators TenneT and TransnetBW to support the planned SuedLink program which will deliver new underground cable connection to transport wind power from northern Germany to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
In a recent letter to the Dutch parliament, Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said he plans to privatize or sell off a stake in TenneT.
Germany: DNV GL has signed a four-year framework agreement with TenneT to provide project certification for new HVDC substations linked to offshore wind farms in the German North Sea.
Drydocks World has signed a contract with Petrofac and end-client TenneT to build a high voltage alternating current (HVAC) transformer station topside.
TenneT has awarded Petrofac work on the Beta high voltage alternate current substation platform in the North Sea for the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm.
TenneT is delivering two transformers to a substation in Wilster in Schleswig Holstein, as part of upgrades that will integrate more offshore wind into the grid.
TenneT is to build 2 GW converter stations and install cables with the same capacity in an effort to reduce their number and the costs.
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: GE has completed its first offshore HVDC project, DolWin gamma converter platform, for the transmission system operator TenneT.
The Netherlands: Dutch transmission system operator TenneT Holding BV has started construction of a high-voltage substation at Rilland in the Dutch province of Zeeland, reports Renewables Now.
The Netherlands, Breukelen: Tennet has successfully complete the second part of the transformer transport to its new Breukelen Kortrijk substation.
The Netherlands, Arnhem: TenneT, the Netherlands national electricity transmission system operator has signed framework agreements for the future supply of power transformers and Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) for the Dutch offshore power grid.
UAE, Dubai: Dubai’s Drydocks World and Maritime World signed an agreement to build a second offshore wind converter platform for TenneT.
France, Lavellois-Perret: Construction of the 900 MW DolWin gamma offshore converter platform has started at the Nordic Yards shipyard in Warnemünde, Northern Germany.
France, Levallois-Perret: On Thursday 15 May 2014, the ground-breaking ceremony for the onshore converter station took place at the Dörpen West site in Heede, Germany, with representatives of Transmission System Operator TenneT, contractor Alstom and the mayors of the joint municipalities of Dörpen and Heede taking part.
Germany, Berlin: Siemens and Petrofac consortium has received an order from TenneT for an offshore wind farm grid connection in the North Sea.