Aibel contracted Heerema Marine Contractors to transport and install the two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore converter platforms, including both jackets and platform topsides.
Ørsted was awarded a Contract for Difference (CfD) for Hornsea 3 in July 2022, with the developer saying that with an installed capacity of 2.9 GW, Hornsea 3 was the largest single offshore wind farm in the world.
In 2023, when Ørsted took the Final Investment Decision (FID) on the offshore wind farm, the company noted that the CfD framework permitted a reduction of the awarded capacity and that Ørsted would use this flexibility to submit a share of Hornsea 3’s capacity into the UK’s CfD allocation round 6 (AR6).
Hornsea 3, located approximately 160 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast, was awarded 1,080 MW capacity in the UK’s AR6 auction in September 2024.
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