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Collaboration in growing value chain. We look forward to bringing our
industry-leading experience and deep domain
offshore wind market knowledge together, to benefit our customers
and power millions more homes using
renewable energy.”
Recent Hitachi Energy HVDC offshore wind
itachi Energy, a market and technology leader in transmission, distribution projects include Dogger Bank, the world’s largest
and grid automation solutions, and Petrofac, a leading international service offshore wind farm off the UK coast, and four of
Hprovider to the energy industry, have begun a collaboration to provide grid the DolWin and BorWin HVDC hubs that connect
integration and associated infrastructure to support the rapidly growing offshore multiple wind farms in the North Sea to the
wind market. German power grid.
According to the World Forum Offshore Wind, the sector is undergoing Hitachi Energy is also a global leading supplier
unprecedented growth globally. In 2021, a record 15,7 GW of capacity was added, of grid connection solutions for the AC offshore
compared to around 5,2 GW per year in 2020 and 2019. wind farms industry.
The collaboration between Hitachi Energy and Petrofac builds on the Hitachi Energy pioneered HVDC almost 70
complementary core technologies and expertise of both companies in offshore years ago and has delivered more than half of the
wind. It aims to support the decarbonisation of power systems and deliver clean world’s HVDC projects and more than 70% of the
energy and covers both HVDC and HVAC solutions. world’s voltage source converter (HVDC Light)
Hitachi Energy’s HVDC Light® and modular HVAC grid technologies and solutions installations. HVDC Light is the technology of
and Petrofac’s world-class engineering, procurement, construction and installation choice for transferring power over long distances
capabilities for offshore platforms and offshore and onshore civil works, will bring from offshore wind farms to the mainland grid.
considerable benefits to the efficient implementation of offshore wind projects and Its defining features include uniquely compact
help accelerate the energy transition. converter stations (which is extremely important
“We are delighted to collaborate with Petrofac to help meet the growing need in space-critical applications like offshore wind
for large-scale offshore wind generation and deliver clean renewable electricity to platforms), exceptionally low electrical losses of
consumers. As leaders in our respective fields, this collaboration will create added less than 1%, and black-start capability to restore
value for our customers and help accelerate the energy transition,” said Niklas power after a grid outage.
Persson, Managing Director of Hitachi Energy’s Grid Integration business. “Our HVDC
and HVAC solutions are key enablers of the transition to a global energy system that Contact Tamara Naidoo, Hitachi Energy,
is more sustainable, flexible and secure.” Phone 010 202-5093,
“Offshore wind plays a crucial role in the transition to clean, affordable tamara.naidoo@hitachienergy.com,
energy and we’ve been successfully delivering major projects in the sector for https://www.hitachienergy.com
more than a decade now,” said Elie Lahoud, Chief Operating Officer, Engineering LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/
& Construction of Petrofac. “Hitachi Energy is well known for its long track hitachienergy
record in providing innovative technologies and solutions across the power grid Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitachiEnergy

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