Danish and German transmission system operators (TSOs) Energinet and 50Hertz have began the tendering course of for the supply of HVDC gear and cables for the joint challenge, Bornholm Power Island.
HDVC gear for the stations in Germany and Denmark will likely be tendered as one joint contract which has been despatched to prequalified distributors right now, Energinet stated. The three stations will likely be positioned in Høje Taastrup, Bornholm, and Germany.
50Hertz and Energinet have designed the procurement of the HVDC breakers as an choice, which might both be constructed as a part of the preliminary building or as a separate tender at a later part.
The explanation for this, says Energinet, is that some distributors are extremely taken with supplying the breakers, whereas others favor to concentrate on their core merchandise.
”We can’t ignore the present market state of affairs. HVDC circuit breakers will play an necessary half within the operation of our Power Island however aren’t essential within the preliminary part. Subsequently, we now have determined that it’s extra necessary to make sure a aggressive bidding course of and to maintain up the tempo of the inexperienced transition with a purpose to safe the availability of fresh electrical energy to shoppers in Germany and Denmark,” stated Hanne Storm Edlefsen, vice chairman for Power Islands at Energinet.
50Hertz has already signed a contract for the procurement of HVDC cables for Bornholm Power Island and a number of other different tasks.
Energinet has began the tender of 1 contract for the manufacturing of cables in addition to offshore set up.
Onshore set up and horizontal directional drillings (HDD) will likely be a separate contract in addition to surveying and elimination of unexploded ordnance (UXO) which will even be tendered as a separate contract at a later time, in line with Energinet.
Civil works and the buildings for the HDVC stations will likely be tendered for Denmark and Germany respectively, at a later time, stated the Danish TSO.
The TSOs determined to hurry up the tendering after a market dialogue with distributors with a purpose to reserve manufacturing capability as early as attainable and maintain to the challenge timeline, Energinet stated.
As well as, 50Hertz and Energinet selected to separate the tender into a number of contracts with a purpose to allow events taken with bidding on the HVDC stations and cables the likelihood to bid on contracts inside their core companies, whereas different components of the challenge will likely be tendered individually.
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The subsequent step will likely be receiving bids and beginning negotiations till contracts could be signed within the second half of 2024, stated Energinet.
Building on Energinet’s a part of the challenge can start as soon as it has obtained an environmental allow and archaeological excavations have been accomplished in 2025.
In Germany, set up and building can start as soon as permission has been granted by the authorities.
Bornholm Power Island, positioned within the Danish sector of the Baltic Sea, will facilitate connecting at the very least 3 GW of offshore wind era capability to the grid by the early 2030s. The electrical energy will then be transported through new grid connections to Germany (2 GW ) and to the Danish mainland (1.2 GW).
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