The EU's energy independence through the North Sea

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by moinsdewatt » 14/10/20, 00:12

The future largest wind farm in the world comes out of the water

Published 12 / 10 / 2020

Installation of the first of 165 monopile foundations at Hornsea II, UK, is complete.

Ørsted, project leader, made the announcement on October 9 on social networks. Maneuvering to complete the site, which also includes the installation of transition pieces, Deme dispatched his Innovation vessel there. The same that must be used for Saint-Nazaire.

Equipped with 8,4 MW wind turbines supplied by Siemens Gamesa, Hornsea 2, which lies 89 km off the coast of Yorkshire on the east coast of England, is set to become the largest wind farm in sea ​​at its commissioning scheduled for 2022. With a capacity of 1 MW, it will dethrone Hornsea 386 and its 1 MW. According to Ørsted, it will supply the electricity consumption of 1 million UK homes.


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by moinsdewatt » 19/11/20, 22:19

The Germans will build a 900 MW HVDC converter station to send offshore wind power to the coast 160 km away.
1.4 billion €!

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The structure, known as DolWin3, is a 900-megawatt converter station the size of the Arc de Triomphe that's capable of supplying 1 million German homes with wind power. Built by GE Renewable Energy's Grid Solutions unit, the $ 1.4 billion installation gathers electricity from surrounding offshore wind turbines and zips it through a cable to a sister station on Germany's soil.

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by moinsdewatt » 04/12/20, 22:33

United Kingdom: Eni takes a stake in the project for the world's largest offshore wind farm

AFP published on Dec. 04 2020

The Italian hydrocarbon giant Eni announced on Friday the acquisition of a 20% stake in the project led by SSE and Equinor aimed at creating the largest offshore wind farm in the world off the United Kingdom.

Britain's SSE and Norwegian Equinor have each confirmed in press releases 10% each, for a total of 400 million pounds (442 million euros). This transaction, at the end of which the share of SSE and Equinor will be reduced to 40% each, should be completed in early 2021.

Eni will currently participate in the development of the first two phases of the project, the financing of which was completed at the end of November for 6 billion pounds (6,7 billion euros). In all, three phases are planned by 2026, which when completed will create the largest offshore wind farm in the world. The first phase will be delivered in 2023-2024.

The Dogger Bank field is located in the North Sea, off the North East coast of England and its total capacity is 3,6 GW. According to the project leaders, this offshore wind farm should produce the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 6 million homes or around 5% of British electricity production.

The project, which brings together three sites with a capacity of 1,2 GW each, represents a total investment estimated at around 9 billion pounds (more than ten billion euros) over the period 2020-2026. SSE will be responsible for the construction phase and Equinor for operations. For Eni, this is an entry into the offshore wind market in the northern European area, which he considers to be "the most promising in the world". This investment will allow it to move towards its goal of achieving 5GW capacity in renewable energy by 2025.

This wind project is also crucial for the United Kingdom, which will host the major UN climate conference in Glasgow in 2021 (COP 26) and aims for carbon neutrality by 2050. Offshore wind power is at the heart of the "green" strategy of Boris Johnson's conservative government. He pledged to make the UK the Saudi Arabia of offshore wind, capable of powering every UK household with quadruple offshore wind capacities to 40 gigawatts (GW) by 2030.


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by moinsdewatt » 19/01/21, 08:36

Denmark unveils energy island project for 2030

Stéphane GALLOIS. Jan 19 2021

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The project called VindØ will concentrate electricity from several wind farms and will be able to store electricity or transform it.

Wind turbines even further from the coast… This is what Denmark wants to achieve by 2030, with an energy island some XNUMX kilometers offshore, in the North Sea.

The ambition of the VindØ project is not only to conceal the wind farms beyond the horizon of the earthlings. It is about creating an installation capable of making the most of wind energy by distributing it, storing it or transforming it as needed.

In a video released last week, the promoters of VindØ, Danish pension funds PFA and PensionDanmark, unveil the main elements of their concept. The artificial island, founded on huge concrete blocks, will be organized around a high-voltage transformer station capable of concentrating the electricity produced by several wind farms at sea.

Three gigawatts to start with, investors say. That is to say roughly 50% of the power that will be installed, on the same date, on the three hexagonal seafronts. Ultimately, the island will be able to connect up to ten gigawatts, they add.

An energy that will not be wasted, since it is planned not only to distribute it in the Danish network, but also to store it or transform it (into hydrogen for example). Spaces will be set up to accommodate these installations and even subsequently accommodate new technologies.

A second energy island project is also due to see the light of day on the Baltic Sea side, near the island of Bornholm, but it has not yet been awarded.

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by moinsdewatt » 21/01/21, 19:46

Offshore wind production in Germany continues to increase in 2020

Posted on 20/01/2021 lemarin

Offshore wind production continued to increase in Germany. After an increase of more than 25% in 2019, it increases by more than 11% in 2020 to reach 26,89 terawatt-hours (Twh).

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Offshore wind power generation in Germany increased from 24,16 terawatt-hours in 2019 to 26,89 in 2020 (Photo: Trianel windpark)

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by let's save » 26/01/21, 14:30

Hello, the Germans are more advanced than us in terms of ecology. After that, do wind turbines bring positive effects if they are installed in the water, I don't know if marine life appreciates the waves ...
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by GuyGadeboisTheBack » 26/01/21, 14:36

econo-misons wrote:Hello, the Germans are more advanced than us in terms of ecology. After that, do wind turbines bring positive effects if they are installed in the water, I don't know if marine life appreciates the waves ...

Well, it can't be worse than jet skis.
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by sicetaitsimple » 01/02/21, 19:16

Three announcements in late 2020 / early 2021 on the commissioning or testing of three HV / DC links, essential if indeed offshore wind power is to become a major source of production in Northern Europe:

- Nordlink, between Germany and Norway, 1400MW
- Alegro, between Germany and Belgium (underground land link), 1000MW. Until now Germany and Belgium had no interconnection.
- IFA 2 between France and England, 1000MW.
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by Dina42 » 01/02/21, 20:12

Elec wrote:No, not with the single wind turbine Christophe: it is a wind farm connected via HVDC, with assistance of pumped storage stations (STEP). You can put away your pipe;)

[url = https: //www.shuttle-paris-airports.com/paris-shuttle] paris tranfers airportsHVDC interconnection of wind farms for continuous electricity generation / GreenPeace [/ url]

An isolated wind farm (as off London in the example below, first graph) has a high intermittent output.

A connection HVDC of all parks on the east coast of the United Kingdom reduces this intermittency (second graph).

And an interconnection of all the parks of the North Sea allows to have an almost continuous production (3ème graph).
The explanation is simple: at a time t, the wind does not blow everywhere uniformly over the North Sea: some days or hours, the production is mainly off the coast of Scandinavia, another day off the Netherlands. Low etc.

With a pumping / turbining assistance in Scandinavia (+ smart grid + V2G / G2V), the concept is excellent.

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The strength of a network!

Hello, I will want to know about this concept for weeks, thank you
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Re: The EU's energy independence through the North Sea




by Dina42 » 01/02/21, 20:16

sicetaitsimple wrote:Three announcements in late 2020 / early 2021 on the commissioning or testing of three HV / DC links, essential if indeed offshore wind power is to become a major source of production in Northern Europe:

- Nordlink, between Germany and Norway, 1400MW
- Alegro, between Germany and Belgium (underground land link), 1000MW. Until now Germany and Belgium had no interconnection.
- IFA 2 between France and England, 1000MW.

Say, does that have nothing to do with containment?
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