Last night, Heerema Marine Contractors’ crane vessel Thialf successfully installed the topside for TenneT’s offshore transformer platform Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) on the jacket foundation. From 2026, grid operator TenneT will bring sustainable wind energy onshore via this ‘socket’. The...
Today, the ‘sail out’ of the topside for the offshore platform Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) takes place. The steel construction will sail to its final destination about 50 kilometers off the coast of Egmond aan Zee where it will be...
The assembly of the topside for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) offshore substation has been completed at the Equans BeLux yard in Hoboken, Belgium. On 5 August, the 700 MW substation was already loaded onto the Sarens seagoing barge Louis...
The “Hollandse Kust (west Alpha)” substation has departed the Equans BeLux hall in order to proceed with the work at the yard in Hoboken. According to a social media update from TenneT, the move-out of the topside for the second...
Jan de Nul Group and LS Cable & Systems completed the installation of the first sea cable for the Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) connection for TenneT. The second connection will be installed next year. In recent weeks, over sixty kilometres...
Jan de Nul has completed the burial of both the export cables for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (north), and nearly six kilometres for (west Alpha) connections into the ground on the beach and North Sea. This concludes the job for the...
At the end of last week, Belgian contractor Jan de Nul’s intertidal trenching vehicle Moonfish returned to Heemskerk beach to bury TenneT’s subsea cables for the Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) connection. Meanwhile, all four sea cables have been pulled in...
The jacket substructure for the Hollandse Kust (west Alpha) transformer platform has been put in place off the coast of Egmond. The DEME installation vessel Orion carried out the installation. The 2,300-ton, 49-meter-high jacket foundation is supported at its four...
Belgian contractor Jan De Nul has awarded Dutch DHSS with a ships agency contract for its Hollandse Kust (Noord) and (West Alpha) offshore cable campaign. Jan De Nul, as part of the consortium ‘JLC’ together with LS-Cable & System, are...
Last week, at the Smulders’ facility in Hoboken, Belgium, the joint venture ENGIE Solutions – Iemants (subsidiary of Smulders) started the cutting of the first steel for the topside of TenneT’s offshore transformer station for the Hollandse Kust (west Alpha)...
