Top representatives of the transmission system operator TenneT, the Hitachi Energy/Petrofac co operation and the three consortium partnerships GE/Sembcorp (SMOP), GE/McDermott and Sie mens Energy/Dragados today officially signed the contracts in Berlin to seal Europe’s largest-ever tender award for energy transition infrastructure, said the company.
The total volume of the contracts for the compo nents of the 14 systems amounts to around €30 billion. The result will be a transmission capacity of offshore wind energy in the German and Dutch North Sea that will generate as much electricity as 28 large-scale power plants.
TenneT has thereby completed the process of awarding contracts for the sea- and land-based converter stations for a total of 14 offshore grid connection systems, which was launched in Au gust 2022. TenneT had already awarded 11 of these systems at the end of March, eight of them in the Netherlands and three in Germany. Three more systems in Germany were added today. These 14 systems are to be realised by 2031.
Their “core components”, meaning the innovative two-gigawatt technology for converting alternating current into direct current and back, will be manufactured exclusively at European production sites of the consortiums’ members in all pro jects. With a contract of this magnitude, Europe will be taking a global lead – in terms of both tech nology and production – in a key sector of tomorrow’s energy supply.
We remind, McDermott has been awarded an engineering, procurement services and construction management (EPsCm) contract from Slovnaft, a.s., for the steam cracker intensification off-gas processing project at its plant in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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