Royal Smit Transformatoren has completed two transformers for TenneT to connect the 759MW Hollandse Kust North offshore wind farm.
The units are being transported by ship to Hoboken, where they are mounted in the superstructure of the platform at the Engie Fabricom site.
Mammoet loaded the 400MVA/230kV transformers and, on Monday, the inland vessel Gendtia will dock with the cargo in Hoboken, Belgium.
TenneT s Arthur Rondeel said: “The platform for Hollandse Kust North will have a capacity to bring 700MW of green electricity ashore.
“This corresponds to the annual consumption of all households and industry in the city of Amsterdam.”
9 February 2021 10:24 GMT Updated 9 February 2021 11:26 GMT
Fortum subsidiary Uniper and the Dutch Port of Rotterdam are considering large-scale production of green hydrogen at a plant in the Maasvlakte area of what is Europe’s largest harbour.
A feasibility study will be completed this summer for a hydrogen plant on Uniper’s site by 2025 with a capacity of 100MW that could be expanded to 500MW, the utility said.
Düsseldorf-based Uniper was formed by spinning off the fossil fuel assets of German utility E.ON in 2016, and later was bought by Finnish utility Fortum. While still heavily fossil and nuclear-based, Uniper has announced to close or convert its coal-fired power plants in Europe by 2025 at the latest, and become carbon neutral in Europe by 2035.
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