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Dragados Offshore Dragados Offshore is a leading international offshore contractor for the Oil & Gas and Renewable industries and has for five decades successfully delivered over 90 projects worldwide, covering Europe, USA, Africa and Central and South America in a responsible and safe manner, applying quality, schedule compliance and economic result. Dragados Offshore provides optimal and innovate solutions within engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance. We are proud to be selected by TenneT to develop, build and deliver in partnership with Siemens the HVDC converter platforms of the DolWin6 HVDC grid connection and the BorWin5 HVDC grid connection Projects. While DolWin6 was a major milestone, being our first complete Renewable platform project, BorWin5 provides a perfect fit of workload and continuity.
SEVEN LARGE POWER PLANTS, EVERY YEAR Manon van Beek is the CEO of TenneT. She harbours high ambitions for her firm and believes it is imperative to act now to meet the target of decarbonising the European economy by 2050. “There is simply no time to lose,” affirms van Beek. “Today, only three GW of renewable energies are built and connected offshore in Europe each year, reaching 27 GW connections of offshore wind in the North Sea until 2030. After 2030, connections of GW have to be multiplied to an annual offshore generation capacity in the magnitude of seven large power plants.” Alongside its partners, TenneT is working towards a first internationally connected offshore wind power hub in the North Sea. The firm is set to build a first cross-border 12 GW hub by 2035 and to connect two GW to Denmark, four GW to The Netherlands and six GW to Germany, an effort recently financially supported by the EC through its Connecting Europe Facility. The consortium of North Sea Wind Power Hub programme will also work on the challenge to be innovative on other parts of the 58 | EME Outlook issue 41
Manon van Beek, CEO offshore energy infrastructure. “For example, this is done by continuously investigating on how artificial islands can contribute to cost efficiency when offshore wind areas become bigger in size; like the three to ten GW ‘energy island’ recently announced in Denmark,” explains van Beek. “From a certain size it might be more efficient to consider multi-purpose island solutions. Island solutions can also provide a role from a system integration perspective. A part of the energy from offshore wind can be transmitted to the shore in the form of electricity, but another part can be converted to hydrogen.”
New challenges are present throughout the value chain of renewable energies; from conceptual design and feasibility studies, manufacturing, construction and commissioning, to the subsequent operation and maintenance. Dragados Offshore faces these challenges and ensures “Building Excellence Worldwide” thanks to the fusion of our solid experience, our highly qualified and specialized team and our innovative designs. Dragados Offshore will continue to foster innovation and attract the best talent to maintain the excellence of its services, remain a trusted partner and participate through its services in the creation of a more sustainable world. COMPANY LOCATIONS AT A GLANCE • Cádiz Yard and Headquarters, Spain • Tampico Yard, México • Altamira Yard, México • Logistics, Ciudad del Carmen, México • Business and commercial, Houston, TX USA
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