• GE heeft een multi-miljoen dollar project toegekend met EDF Renewables en ESB’s Neart na Gaoithe offshore windparkproject voor het ontwerpen, leveren, bouwen en in bedrijf stellen van substations
• De deal bundelt expertise op het gebied van samenwerking om flexibel aanzienlijke efficiencyverbeteringen te leveren aan EDF Renewables en ESB
• Het project zal helpen om koolstofarme energie te leveren aan 375.000 Schotse huizen1

PARIJS – (BUSINESS WIRE) – De Grid Solutions-activiteiten van GE Renewable Energy (NYSE: GE) hebben een project van meerdere miljoenen gekregen voor het ontwerp, de levering, de bouw en de inbedrijfstelling of onshore en offshore windstations voor het Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore windpark, 12 mijl uit de kust van Fife in Schotland. Het offshore windmolenparkproject is gezamenlijk eigendom van EDF Renewables en ESB. EDF Renewables is één van de toonaangevende Britse bedrijven voor duurzame energie en ESB is een Irish Energy Company dat actief is op de elektriciteitsmarkt op het eiland Ierland, met een gevestigde en groeiende aanwezigheid in Groot-Brittannië. GE is verantwoordelijk voor de turnkey-levering van alle infrastructuur binnen de perimeter, inclusief grondwerken en civiele bouw. NnG zal naar verwachting volledig operationeel zijn in 2023.

GE to help deliver wind energy to 375,000 homes in Scotland

• GE awarded a multi-million dollar project with EDF Renewables and ESB’s Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm project to design, supply, construct, and commission substations
• The deal brings together collaborative expertise to flexibly deliver significant efficiencies to EDF Renewables and ESB
• The project will help deliver low-carbon energy to 375,000 Scottish homes¹

PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business (NYSE: GE) has been awarded a multi-million dollar project for the design, supply, construction and commissioning of onshore and offshore wind substations for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, 12 miles off the Fife coast in Scotland. The offshore wind farm project is jointly owned by EDF Renewables and ESB. EDF Renewables is one of the UK’s leading renewable energy companies and ESB is an Irish Energy Company operating across the electricity market on the island of Ireland, with an established and growing presence in Great Britain. GE is responsible for the turnkey delivery of all infrastructure within the perimeter, including ground works and civil construction. NnG is expected to be fully operational in 2023.

Wind power is Scotland’s fastest growing renewable energy technology. Some say that the country is in the midst of a “wind energy revolution.” Figures from Weather Energy show that between January and June of 2019, wind turbines in Scotland provided enough electricity to power the equivalent of 4.47 million homes—almost twice the entire country’s domestic power requirements.

Neart na Gaoithe (which literally means “Strength of the Wind”) will play a major role in meeting the carbon emissions reduction targets of both the Scottish and UK governments. The 400/220 kilovolt (kV) onshore wind substation will be built on a greenfield site. Once NnG is operational, it will offset more than 400,000 tons of CO₂ emissions each year and provide enough electricity to power more than 375,000 Scottish homes.

“GE’s Grid Solutions business is very proud to work with our consortium collaborators to support both shareholders in their growing portfolios of onshore and offshore wind farms as well as to help deliver low carbon electricity generation in the UK,” said Gerhard Seyrling, GE’s Grid Solutions president & CEO Europe, Russia & CIS.

In a consortium arrangement, GE is collaborating with HSM Offshore BV in the Netherlands and IV-One. HSM will provide the offshore topside platform designed by IV-One, that will house GE’s 220kV and 66kV substations.

The project’s onshore and offshore substation equipment includes four power transformers, four reactors, the static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), power quality components, and gas insulated switchgear—at 66kV, 220kV and 400kV—as well as protection and control, SCADA, and telecommunications systems. This solution will allow for 450 megawatts (MW) of low carbon energy to be connected to the Scottish electricity grid.

Notes to the Editor:

1. Based upon the average domestic electricity consumption per home of 3,889 kWh per the Energy Consumption in the UK (published July 2017) and Renewable-UK offshore wind average load factor at 37.2%.

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