Avantha Group Company CG (Crompton Greaves), along with the other consortium partners Fabricom and Iemants, has been selected by Van Oord, for the offshore wind project `Gemini' in the Netherlands.
As part of the scope, CG would design, deliver and install two high voltage (HV) offshore substations and 1 HV onshore substation. The volume of the order for the consortium is in excess of €150 million. CG’s scope covers around 30 per cent of the overall contract. The project is expected to start in the second quarter of 2014, and to be completed in 2016.
The Gemini project consists of two offshore wind farms i.e. Buitengaats (300 MW) and Zee Energie (300 MW) and is located 85 kms north of the island of Schiermonnikoog in the Dutch North Sea. The total 600 MW of installed capacity would produce electricity for over 785,000 households which equal a reduction in emissions of 1,250,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
CG would design and engineer the overall electrical HV system, manufacture and supply all key equipment and connect the onshore substation to the 400 kv tennet high voltage grid.