Germany boosted its offshore wind power capacity by 357 megawatts (MW) to 7,036 MW last year, inching towards a planned 30,000 MW by 2030, power grid operator TenneT said.The German arm of the Dutch transmission group will play a key role in achieving the target…
Jan de Nul Group and LS Cable & System have completed the installation of the first sea cable for West Alpha offshore wind substation for Dutch grid operator TenneT. The offshore installation contractors used the cable-laying vessel Connector…
Today Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT has signed deals with Hitachi Energy and Petrofac for early works in support of TenneT’s 2GW Program. The companies will start preparatory work and detailed engineering to ensure timely…
The first steel was cut on Friday, December 9, for the topside of TenneT's offshore transformer station for the Hollandse Kust (west Beta) wind farm zone. A first steel cut ceremony was held at the Equans yard in Hoboken, Belgium, marking the…
The German government wants to buy either a majority stake or all of the German subsidiary of Dutch power grid operator TenneT as part of Berlin's planned transition towards sustainable energy use, two German government sources told Reuters…
A consortium between Semco Maritime and SeaRenergy has secured a 5-year service contract with grid operator TenneT for offshore grid connection systems and offshore substations in Germany and The Netherlands.The duo will be responsible for the…
The topside for the offshore wind transformer station Hollandse Kust (north) was installed this week on a jacket previously installed on the seabed, Dutch grid operator TenneT has informed. DEME Offshore's Orion vessel installed the topside…
Dutch grid operator Tennet said on Tuesday it would launch a tender to build high voltage cable lines running between land in Germany and the Netherlands and connectors near wind turbine parks being built in the North Sea. In a statement…
From EQUANS' fabrication hall in Antwerp, Belgium, the topside for TenneT's Hollandse Kust (north) transformer platform was placed on a floating barge in the port on Monday. Following the load out, the steel structure weighing over 3,500 tons…
Dutch/German grid operator TenneT said Monday that the 900 MW offshore substation platform DolWin kappa had sailed away from the Dragados Offshore shipyard in Cádiz, Spain. 'TenneT will soon be reliably bringing even more green wind power from…
Dutch/German grid operator TenneT said Wednedsay that in the tendering process for the award of the contract to build the 235-kilometre-long offshore grid connection system BorWin6, has now also awarded the contract for cable pro-duction and laying…
TenneT, the German/Dutch grid operator, said on Tuesday it plans to invest a combined 22 billion euros ($22.5 billion) in developing the Dutch electrical grid onshore and offshore over the next decade.In a statement, the company said it had…
With the growing offshore wind ambitions in Europe, where four countries recently agreed to jointly install at least 65 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, a new tender approach will be required so the supply chain can keep up with these ambitions…
Marine geoscience and offshore construction support service provide NextGeo has completed offshore cable route surveys in the Dutch North Sea in support of TenneT's and the Dutch government’s program to increase offshore wind capacity by 2030…
The first turbine was installed earlier this week at Vattenfall's Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea, Jochen Eickholt, CEO of wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, said in a social media post.Eickholt said: 'In a milestone moment yesterday…