TenneT and GE Vernova Seatrium consortium celebrated the beginning of building of the topside for the IJmuiden Ver Beta offshore platform, one of many first Dutch 2GW grid connection tasks.
This strike metal ceremony happened at Seatrium’s Tuas Boulevard Yard in Singapore the place the topside is being constructed. The excessive voltage direct present (HVDC) offshore converter platform will join the IJmuiden Ver Beta wind farm and can be put in within the Dutch North Sea in 2028.
In 2023, TenneT chosen the GE Vernova Seatrium consortium to provide the offshore HVDC platforms for the 2GW Maasvlakte cluster. GE Vernova is answerable for the superior 2GW HVDC system and consortium associate Seatrium will engineer and manufacture the platform. Beneath the framework settlement the GE Vernova Seatrium consortium has been awarded three Dutch tasks (IJmuiden Ver Beta, IJmuiden Ver Gamma and Nederwiek 2) that can be related to the excessive voltage grid at Maasvlakte (Rotterdam).
Jessie van der Linden, Affiliate Director Massive Initiatives Offshore (2GW) : “After years of preparation engineering and procurement in a difficult time, it’s a nice pleasure to see that the IJmuiden Ver Beta platform will now start to take bodily form. It’s a memorable and proud second as it’s also the very first 2GW platform of which at the least 12 are to comply with within the subsequent years.”
Mr Samuel Wong, Government Vice President, Seatrium Power (Mounted Platforms), mentioned: “After nearly 18 months of engineering and procurement work, we’re happy to start the primary metal fabrication milestone for the development of the primary offshore HDVC platform for TenneT, working carefully with our associate, GE Vernova. We have now taken time to arrange meticulously for this venture by means of detailed engineering work, which is able to allow us to realize larger operational synergies for subsequent tasks.”
As soon as commissioned in 2029, the grid connection will ship 2GW of electrical energy from the wind farm IJmuiden Ver Beta within the North Sea. The high-voltage direct present (HVDC) transmission system will join the wind farm off the Dutch coast with the excessive voltage grid on land. The wind energy produced offshore can be transported as alternating present to the offshore converter platform, utilizing a 66-kV connection: the wind farm can be related on to the offshore platform. The converter station converts the alternating present into direct present. The electrical energy can be transported through a 155 kilometres lengthy modern 525 kV cable connection to the onshore converter station at Amaliahaven (Maasvlakte). Right here the electrical energy is transformed again into alternating present and fed into the excessive voltage grid through the converter station. As a result of distance and the facility to be transported, direct present is right for low-loss transport.
2GW Program
TenneT’s modern 2GW Program combines TenneT’s intensive experience in offshore grid connections with a singular transnational method. With its sturdy give attention to harmonisation and standardisation, it offers a blueprint for future offshore grid connection programs and permits sooner deployment. On the identical time, the bigger capability of two gigawatts per system reduces the variety of grid connections required. Supply: TenneT
