Shell and Eneco confirm order to Siemens Gamesa for major Dutch offshore wind array
Turbine manufacturer slated to supply 69 of its 11MW machines to the 759MW Hollandse Kust North project
The CrossWind consortium of oil major Shell and utility Eneco has confirmed an order to Siemens Gamesa to supply turbines for the 759MW Hollandse Kust North (HKN) offshore wind array that is slated to be commissioned in 2023.
The consortium had already lined up Siemens Gamesa as preferred turbine supplier for HKN, for which Shell and Eneco had won development and operation rights in a mid-2020 tender for subsidy-free offshore wind power. Shell owns 79.9% in CrossWind, and Eneco 20.1%.
“As our first project with Shell and our second offshore project with Eneco, we’re extremely excited to grow our partnership with both companies through Hollandse Kust Noord,” said Marc Becker, chief executive of Siemens Gamesa’s offshore business unit.
The so-called ‘notice to proceed’ encompasses the supply, delivery and installation of 69 of the OEM’s SG 11.0-200 DD offshore wind turbines. The contract comes with a 15-year service agreement. To officially count as a firm order in Siemens Gamesa’s accounting, certain contractual conditions will still need to be met in coming months, though, but that usually is a formality.
“With contracts in place, final investment decision taken, and turbines instated with the latest technologies, we will be able to deliver clean energy by 2023,” said CrossWind CEO Tjalling de Bruin.
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CrossWind on Monday had said it plans to sell half of the output of HKN to online retail giant Amazon. The consortium last year had already said it will use part of the power production from the array to power electrolysers to produce green hydrogen in the port of Rotterdam.
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