TenneT COO Tim Meyerjürgens and Tim Holt, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens Vitality, took a tour of the offshore platform of the DolWin6 grid connection undertaking to see for themselves the profitable progress of building on the Dragados shipyard in Cádiz, Spain. The offshore platform DolWin kappa, which is a part of the undertaking, is essentially ready for crusing out in direction of the German North Sea and is thus about to achieve the subsequent milestone. The primary assessments in preparation for commissioning, which is scheduled to be accomplished after the platform set up within the German North Sea, are already underway. DolWin6 shall be TenneT’s thirteenth offshore grid connection system within the German North Sea for the transmission of wind vitality from sea to land. It is going to be linked to the grid in 2023 and, with 900 megawatts, has the capability of a giant energy plant. Siemens Vitality has been commissioned by TenneT as normal contractor to construct the system.
The sturdy and confirmed partnership between TenneT and the contractor Siemens Vitality made a decisive contribution to the profitable and well timed progress of the undertaking, Tim Meyerjürgens defined. In opposition to the backdrop of the German authorities’s formidable offshore enlargement targets of 30 gigawatts by 2030 and the heightened issues about Germany’s vitality safety as a result of battle in Ukraine, he emphasised the significance of the DolWin6 connection system.
On the similar time, Tim Meyerjürgens made it clear that the purely announcement of latest German enlargement targets for renewable energies by politicians and the acceleration measures for the enlargement of renewable energies within the so-called “Easter Bundle” should not sufficient. “We welcome these formidable targets, however the politicians should now observe up persistently and set the course within the ‘summer time package deal’ in order that the acceleration of grid enlargement at sea may also succeed and, in parallel, additionally obtain the decisive impetus on land. In concrete phrases, this implies: approval procedures have to be accelerated, their degree of element diminished and offshore building home windows prolonged,” Tim Meyerjürgens instructed journalists in Cádiz. “Along with the opposite transmission system operators, we now have submitted concrete proposals to the politicians and the supervisory authority on how the elevated building targets could be technically possible inside the timeframe specified. Nonetheless, interventions in planning processes or adjustments to authorized necessities for initiatives which have already been put out to tender, are beneath building or are about to be constructed are counterproductive and result in the other impact, specifically delays,” Tim Meyerjürgens made clear.
