Construction work on TenneT’s Ijmuiden Ver Beta offshore wind converter platform has begun at Seatrium’s Tuas Boulevard shipyard in Singapore with the first steel cut.
The 2GW HVDC platform will connect to the Ijmuiden Ver Beta wind farm, awarded earlier this year to Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, and will be installed in the Dutch North Sea in 2028.
GE Vernova is responsible for the HVDC system and consortium partner Seatrium will engineer and manufacture the platform.
Under a framework agreement with TenneT the GE Vernova Seatrium consortium has been awarded three Dutch platform projects (Ijmuiden Ver Beta, Ijmuiden Ver Gamma and Nederwiek 2) that will be connected to onshore converter stations at Amaliahaven, Maasvlakte.
Seatrium Energy (Fixed Platforms) executive vice president Samuel Wong said: “After almost 18 months of engineering and procurement work, we are pleased to commence the first steel fabrication milestone for the construction of the first offshore HDVC platform for TenneT, working closely with our partner, GE Vernova.
“We have taken time to prepare meticulously for this project through detailed engineering work, which will enable us to achieve greater operational synergies for subsequent projects.”
GE Vernova grid systems integration business line leader Johan Bindele added: “We are excited about the start of construction of the IJmuiden Ver Beta platform.
“This marks a major milestone in TenneT’s innovative 2GW Program.
“Together with our consortium partner Seatrium, we look forward to helping accelerate the expansion of the European offshore grid, which is critical to the continent’s climate neutral goals.”