The IJmuidenVer wind farm area in the Netherlands will house TenneT's next-generation offshore grid solutions, each with a connection capacity of 2GW, may contain three instead of two 2GW grid-connected systems, and has a total offshore wind power installed capacity of 6GW instead of 4GW. The site will also be divided into six areas instead of four.

This is based on the latest presentation of the IJmuidenVer grid connection plan at the Amsterdam Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference (OEEC), where the Dutch Enterprise Agency (RVO) provided the latest information on the project. The IJmuidenVer zone now plans to include three offshore grid connections and corresponding transformer platforms: Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Consultation on the draft license and space plan for the Beta connection is scheduled to start at the end of 2021, while Alpha plans to start in early 2022. Final permits and space planning are expected to be in place in the middle of the year-2022. Keywords: engineering news, engineering construction

According to RVO, the Gamma project was launched in the first quarter of this year, and a public consultation on the draft scoping document was conducted from September 17 to October 28. Gamma will follow the same route as Beta and will be connected to Maasvlakte's terrestrial transmission network, while Alpha will be connected to Borssele's terrestrial grid via VeerseMeer. The Gamma and Alpha routes will partly operate along the same offshore route. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate of the Netherlands and the Transmission System Operator (TSO) TenneT conducted consultations on the IJmuidenVerGamma2GW offshore wind power connection project in April 2021, which is the third offshore power grid in the wind farm area. Editor/Xing Wentao