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  • The Netherlands Designates Additional Areas to Build Cost-Effective Hollandse Kust OWFs

    9 December 2016
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    The Dutch government has designated two additional strips of sea area for offshore wind infrastructure to allow for the realisation of offshore wind projects at Hollandse Kust Zuid (1,400MW) and Hollandse Kust Noord (700MW). The aim of this move is to cut the offshore wind cost by enabling construction closer to the coast. Namely, the newly designated […]

  • New Deck Crane for Cadeler’s Wind Osprey

    22 June 2023
    Vessels

    Cadeler has purchased the latest-generation Liebherr Ram Luffing Offshore Crane for its O-class wind farm installation vessel (WFIV) Wind Osprey. The acquisition is part of the company’s upgrade initiatives through which by early 2024, its O-class vessels will be ready to support the next generation of wind turbines. According to Liebherr, its RL 2600 deck […]

  • Peterson Supporting Installation of Hollandse Kust Zuid Transformer Stations

    12 January 2022
    Contracts & Tenders

    Energy logistics provider Peterson is supporting the offshore installation of the two 700 MW transformer platforms for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore grid connection under a logistics contract with Petrofac. HKZ Alpha, the first of the two offshore substations that will connect Vattenfall’s 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm to the Dutch grid, was installed […]

  • Eversendai Offshore Sends Off HKZ Alpha Jacket

    17 July 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Alpha offshore platform has left the Eversendai Offshore shipyard in Ras al Khaimah, the United Arab Emirates. The Hua Xing Long vessel is transporting the jacket foundation to the Dutch North Sea and is expected to arrive at its destination mid-August, TenneT said. There, the jacket […]

  • Export Cable Installation Starts at Hollandse Kust (zuid)

    23 September 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has started installing the export cables which will connect the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust (zuid) offshore wind farm to the Dutch grid, TenneT said. For the first ten kilometres of the cable route at sea, the four export cables will have to be buried more than 5,5 metres into the seabed in order […]

  • Heerema Scoops Hollandse Kust Zuid Deal

    15 May 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Heerema Marine Contractors has won a contract by Petrofac for the transport and installation of the Alpha platform at the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm zone. Heerema will perform the installation by one of its newest vessels, the semi-submersible crane vessel Sleipnir. According to the company, during the tender preparations the feasibility of the […]

  • HKZ Alpha Jacket Foundation Arrives in Netherlands

    28 August 2020
    Grid Connection

    The jacket foundation and pin piles for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Alpha platform have arrived from the United Arab Emirates to the Netherlands. According to Petrofac’s post on social media, the 3,200-tonne jacket is currently off the coast of Scheveningen, waiting for Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Sleipnir to place it at […]

  • Hollandse Kust Zuid Export Cables In Place

    31 August 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Group’s cable-laying vessel Living Stone has completed the installation of the export cables for the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind project in the Netherlands. The cables will connect the HKZ Beta offshore platform to the Dutch mainland. In total, Living Stone installed two 34-kilometer export cables and an 8-kilometer interlink cable. According to DEME, […]

  • Petrofac and TenneT Confirm HKZ Platform Beta Order

    27 June 2019
    Grid Connection

    Petrofac and TenneT have confirmed the award of the contract to build the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore grid connection Beta HVAC substation in the Dutch North Sea. This follows the award of the contract for HKZ platform Alpha in July 2018 and subsequent confirmation of HKZ platform Beta option. A total of eight 700MW […]

  • Eversendai Cuts HKZ Beta Jacket Foundation Steel

    9 June 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Eversendai Offshore cut the first steel for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta offshore substation platform on 28 May. The United Arab Emirates-based company, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s Eversendai Corporation Berhad, is in charge of manufacturing athe jacket foundation and accompanying piles for the platform to be installed at the Hollandse Kust Zuid […]

  • ENGIE Solutions and Iemants Sign Hollandse Kust West Alpha Contract

    11 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    TenneT and a joint venture of ENGIE Solutions and Iemants have signed a contract to design, engineer, produce, deliver, transport, and install the Hollandse Kust West Alpha offshore transformer substation. Earlier this year, the consortium had won the contract for the construction and installation of the Hollandse Kust North offshore transformer substation, with options for […]

  • MTE Delivers for Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta

    20 November 2020
    Grid Connection

    Mech-Tool Engineering (MTE) has completed and delivered fire & blast walls for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta offshore substation to DryDocks World Ltd. The project was completed within budget and ahead of schedule, MTE said. MTE delivered fire & blast walls for the HKZ Alpha platform earlier this year. Drydocks World is responsible for the construction, […]

  • Waves Group Joins Hollandse Kust Zuid Team

    29 October 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore marine and engineering consultancy company Waves Group has won the Marine Warranty Surveyor (MWS) contract on the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. Owned and developed by Vattenfall, the wind farm will comprise 140 Siemens Gamesa 11 MW wind turbines which will be connected to two 700 MW […]

  • Petrofac Scoops Hollandse Kust Zuid Contract

    10 July 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Petrofac has won a contract by TenneT for the offshore grid connection at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm zone.

  • Vattenfall Readying for HKZ Construction with Mock-Up Trials

    3 November 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has been using a mock-up foundation installed at Sif’s Maasvlakte site earlier this year to gain better insight in what awaits its teams once the Hollandse Kust Zuid foundation installation starts in the summer of 2021. The 140 monopile foundations at Hollandse Kust Zuid will not have transition pieces (TPs), bringing the offshore works […]

  • Export Cable Installation Resumes at Hollandse Kust Zuid

    4 August 2021
    Grid Connection, Technology, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s underwater robot Deep Dig-It has returned to the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm to connect the HKZ Beta offshore platform to the mainland. TenneT is developing the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore grid for the connection of the 1.5 GW wind farm. Four offshore cables will be buried in the North Sea bed. For […]

  • Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta Jacket Foundation Stands

    28 June 2021
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Marine Contractors’ heavy lift vessel Sleipnir has installed the second offshore substation jacket foundation at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm offshore the Netherlands. Located 22 kilometres off the Netherlands coast, the 2,852-tonne jacket will support TenneT’s 700 MW Hollandse Kust Zuid Beta transformer platform which will be ready for use in 2022. Marco […]

  • TenneT Issues Offshore Substation Certification Call

    8 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Dutch transmission system operator TenneT TSO has invited certifying authorities to submit their bids for the certification for the execution phase of the Alpha and the Beta offshore substation projects in the Hollandse Kust (zuid) zone, and the pre-contract award phase of the Hollandse Kust (noord) project.

  • 8,000 Tonnes of HKZ Alpha Cables Arrive in Rotterdam

    28 July 2020
    Grid Connection

    More than 8,000 tonnes of high voltage cables for the connection of the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Alpha offshore platform to the onshore grid arrived at the Port Rotterdam on 19 July. The cables, which Hellenic Cables sent from Greece at the beginning of July, were transported by Acta Marine’s CC Atlantique barge, chartered by […]

  • Hollandse Kust Zuid Onshore Substation Ready for Offshore Wind Power

    7 December 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The onshore substation for the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore wind farm in the Netherlands has been fully built and put into operation. The 220kV/380kV transformer station, built by Volker Energy Solutions, together with TenneT, is located next to the Euromax terminal in Maasvlakte. Developed by Vattenfall, the wind farm will be connected […]

  • Eversendai Bags Two Offshore Wind Contracts

    1 June 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Petrofac has awarded the Dubai-based Eversendai Offshore with two substantial contracts for the offshore wind-related projects in the Netherlands and in Scotland, UK. Eversendai Offshore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia’s Eversendai Corporation Berhad, will fabricate and construct a jacket foundation and the accompanying piles for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta substation platform to be […]

  • HKZ Alpha Linked to Land

    9 October 2020
    Grid Connection

    Van Oord has completed the pull-in of the two export cables at the Alpha platform of TenneT’s Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore wind project. The two cables have now reached the recently installed six-legged jacket foundation at the Alpha offshore substation. The installation started on 22 September by pulling the cable ashore. Van Oord’s Deep Dig-It trencher […]

  • First Hollandse Kust Zuid Offshore Substation Topside Leaves Dubai

    25 November 2021
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The first of two High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) offshore transformer station topsides that Petrofac is delivering for the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT has left the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The 700 MW Alpha topside was built at Drydocks World’s fabrication facility in Dubai. It will form part of the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) […]

  • Vattenfall Orders Reusable Monopile Covers for Hollandse Kust Zuid

    12 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall has ordered 140 reusable monopile covers for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore wind farm from Theuws Polyester, which will work together with Composite Cover Manufacturing on the project. The first 40 covers are planned to be delivered this year and the remaining 100 in 2022. “The design of these monopile covers is innovative, […]

  • TenneT Seeks Contractors for Hollandse Kust Zuid, Noord Offshore Platforms

    12 May 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    TenneT has launched a qualification process for candidates interested in tendering for the delivery of offshore platforms that will connect wind farms at Hollandse Kust Zuid and Hollandse Kust Noord offshore areas to the Dutch grid on the mainland.

  • Highlights of the Month – May 2019

    4 June 2019

    The Offshore WIND team brings you the ten most read offshore wind news in the month of May. Vietnamese Offshore Wind Farm Breaks Ground Vietnam’s Tra Vinh Wind Power has held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of the 48MW Korea- Tra Vinh wind farm (Phase 1). Offshore Construction Starts on Moray East The […]