TenneT and Nexans, which signed framework agreements for 3 offshore grid connections final 12 months, have now signed a call-off contract for the BalWin3 and LanWin3 tasks, every of which may have a capability of two GW and can hyperlink offshore wind farms to the German grid.
In Might 2023, TenneT awarded NKT, Nexans, and a consortium of Jan De Nul, LS Cable, and Denys with contracts price roughly EUR 5.5 billion in whole to put in 525 kV HVDC cable programs for ten offshore wind tasks within the Netherlands and Germany.
In addition to BalWin3 and LanWin4, Nexans additionally secured work on the LanWin2 grid connection within the German North Sea. BalWin3 and LanWin4 will hook up with the onshore grid in Wilhelmshaven and LanWin2 close to Heide.Â
Underneath the framework agreements, the French cable maker will probably be chargeable for the complete Engineering, Procurement, Building and Set up (EPCI), together with civil works, of over 2,160 kilometres of subsea and land cables.
The preliminary worth of Nexans’s agreements for the three tasks signed final 12 months is EUR 1.7 billion, with main subcontracted works to be added as soon as the project-specific call-offs are signed, the corporate mentioned in Might 2023.
Based on TenneT, the signing of the call-off contracts for BalWin3 and LanWin4 helps the offshore growth objectives for 2031, offering infrastructure for 4 GW of elevated transmission capability.
For Nexans, the three offshore wind grid connection tasks are the primary by which the Group is deploying its 525 kV offshore cable know-how particularly designed to help the vitality transition, the corporate mentioned.
The subsea cables will probably be manufactured at Nexans’s manufacturing facility in Halden, Norway.
The two GW HVDC offshore platforms for the grid connections will probably be constructed by the Siemens Vitality-Dragados Offshore consortium, which additionally signed a framework settlement with TenneT final 12 months.
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