GE to help deliver wind energy to 375,000 homes in Scotland
January 16 2020 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
- GE awarded a multi-million dollar project with EDF Renewables
and ESB’s Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm project to design,
supply, construct, and commission substations
- The deal brings together collaborative expertise to flexibly
deliver significant efficiencies to EDF Renewables and ESB
- The project will help deliver low-carbon energy to 375,000
Scottish homes1
GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business (NYSE: GE) has
been awarded a multi-million dollar project for the design, supply,
construction and commissioning of onshore and offshore wind
substations for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm, 12
miles off the Fife coast in Scotland. The offshore wind farm
project is jointly owned by EDF Renewables and ESB. EDF Renewables
is one of the UK’s leading renewable energy companies and ESB is an
Irish Energy Company operating across the electricity market on the
island of Ireland, with an established and growing presence in
Great Britain. GE is responsible for the turnkey delivery of all
infrastructure within the perimeter, including ground works and
civil construction. NnG is expected to be fully operational in
2023.
Wind power is Scotland’s fastest growing renewable energy
technology. Some say that the country is in the midst of a “wind
energy revolution.” Figures from Weather Energy show that between
January and June of 2019, wind turbines in Scotland provided enough
electricity to power the equivalent of 4.47 million homes—almost
twice the entire country’s domestic power requirements.
Neart na Gaoithe (which literally means “Strength of the Wind”)
will play a major role in meeting the carbon emissions reduction
targets of both the Scottish and UK governments. The 400/220
kilovolt (kV) onshore wind substation will be built on a greenfield
site. Once NnG is operational, it will offset more than 400,000
tons of CO2 emissions each year and provide enough electricity to
power more than 375,000 Scottish homes.
“GE’s Grid Solutions business is very proud to work with our
consortium collaborators to support both shareholders in their
growing portfolios of onshore and offshore wind farms as well as to
help deliver low carbon electricity generation in the UK,” said
Gerhard Seyrling, GE’s Grid Solutions president & CEO Europe,
Russia & CIS.
In a consortium arrangement, GE is collaborating with HSM
Offshore BV in the Netherlands and IV-One. HSM will provide the
offshore topside platform designed by IV-One, that will house GE’s
220kV and 66kV substations.
The project’s onshore and offshore substation equipment includes
four power transformers, four reactors, the static synchronous
compensator (STATCOM), power quality components, and gas insulated
switchgear—at 66kV, 220kV and 400kV—as well as protection and
control, SCADA, and telecommunications systems. This solution will
allow for 450 megawatts (MW) of low carbon energy to be connected
to the Scottish electricity grid.
Notes to the Editor:
- Based upon the average domestic electricity consumption per
home of 3,889 kWh per the Energy Consumption in the UK (published
July 2017) and Renewable-UK offshore wind average load factor at
37.2%.
About Grid Solutions
GE’s Grid Solutions, a GE Renewable Energy business, serves
customers globally with over 17,000 employees in approximately 80
countries. Grid Solutions helps enable utilities and industry to
effectively manage electricity from the point of generation to the
point of consumption, helping to maximize the reliability,
efficiency and resilience of the grid. For more about GE Renewable
Energy’s Grid Solutions business, visit
www.gegridsolutions.com.
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Allison J. Cohen GE Renewable Energy, Grid Solutions
business External Communications Manager +972-(0)54-7299742
allison.j.cohen@ge.com
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