Grid operator TenneT awarded Japan-based Hitachi and Indian engineering and construction firm Larsen & Toubro two further interconnection projects, they said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
The two companies are already working together to deliver Niederwiek1 and IJmuiden Ver Alpha, high voltage DC power links that each transmit 2 gigawatts of North Sea wind power to shore to reach the grids of the Netherlands and Germany.
They have now been awarded the Nederwiek3 and LanWin5 projects, expanding the scope of their framework agreement with TenneT.
Nederwiek3 will deliver power to an onshore converter station in Geertruidenberg in the South of the Netherlands with potential future connection to the LionLink transmission system running to the UK. The separate LanWin5 project will deliver its energy to Lower Saxony in Germany.