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Siemens hands over fourth North Sea grid connection to Tennet

Erlangen, Germany - With HelWin2, Siemens has handed over the fourth North Sea grid link to the customer Tennet.

This marks the start of commercial operation of the grid connection by the German-Dutch transmission grid operator. All in all, there are now four Siemens grid links with a transmission capacity of over 2.9 gigawatts (GW) installed in the North Sea which together are capable of supplying around four million German households with electricity. The offshore platform HelWin2 alone, which has just gone online, can transmit up to 690 megawatts (MW) of green electricity, enough to supply nearly 900,000 German households. The offshore platform of the HelWin2 link is located about 85 kilometers off the northwest coast of the island of Helgoland from which it takes its name. The connected wind farm will be successively expanded and connected with Siemens wind turbines of the 3.6 megawatt class, with additional turbines being linked in practically every day.



Source: IWR Online, 23 Jun 2015

 


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