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Transmission system operator TenneT on Tuesday announced the completion of the 900-MW DolWin6 offshore grid connection, bringing its transmission capacity in the German North Sea to 8,032 MW.
DolWin6 has been handed over to TenneT after several weeks of trial operation by Siemens Energy AG (ETR:ENR).
This is TenneT’s 13th German offshore link. The project represents a direct current connection comprising an offshore platform, around 45 km (28 miles) of sea cable and the same length of underground cable carrying the electricity to a converter station and a transformer station onshore. The link will transport the generation of the 242-MW Gode Wind 3 wind farm, as well as the 225-MW N-3.7 and 433-MW N-3.8 offshore wind sites to the mainland in Hilgenriedersiel, East Frisia.
In addition to the German North Sea capacity, TenneT has 3,500 MW of connection capacity in the Dutch North Sea, or a total of over 11,500 MW.
The North Sea countries of Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium last year agreed to expand their offshore wind capacity to 65 GW by 2030, with TenneT to be responsible for transporting 40 GW of it. The company noted it is now more than a quarter of the way there.
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