Seatrium Ltd. has been notified by the Dutch national electricity transmission system operator TenneT that it intends to start work on a third two-gigawatt (GW) high voltage direct current (HVDC) electrical transmission system on June 1, 2024.
Seatrium said in a media release that the notice from Tennet is under its five-year framework cooperation agreement it secured with the operator. Under the agreement Seatrium and its consortium partner GE Vernova signed with Tennet, the company will supply three HVDC electrical transmission systems for offshore wind farm projects in the Netherlands, each valued at approximately $2.16 billion (EUR 2 billion), with a total combined capacity of 6.0 GW as part of TenneT’s offshore grid acceleration program.
Seatrium said its scope of work will include engineering, procurement, construction, transportation, installation and commissioning for the 2.0 GW HVDC offshore converter platform for TenneT.
The offshore converter platform will contribute to TenneT's sustainability ambition of installing 40 GW of offshore wind energy in the German and Dutch North Seas, and will serve the NWBE (formerly named as Nederwiek 2) offshore wind farm, located approximately 59 miles off the coast of Netherlands, Seatrium said.
Like the first two HVDC projects awarded to Seatrium last March, Seatrium will be working with its consortium partner, GE Vernova’s Grid Solutions. The contract award of NWBE is expected to be on June 1, 2024, after the completion of certain deliverables by both Seatrium and GE Vernova in the coming months.
“This project underscores our commitment to helping our customers achieve their renewable energy goals by providing innovative and cost-effective solutions that help accelerate the energy transition. With this latest project, Seatrium is currently working on five HDVC offshore Converter Platforms, creating a franchise for series-built opportunities in HVDCs to achieve greater synergies from project repeatability”, Samuel Wong, executive vice-president for fixed platforms, said.
Seatrium said, “Amongst renewable energy sources, offshore wind continues to play a significant role in meeting global climate goals”.
“It is estimated that Europe will require a massive increase in wind installed capacity with an expected growth from 204GW in 2022 to more than 500GW in 2030 alone”, it added.
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