ABB wins USD 50m service deal on offshore wind farms in Germany

(ADPnews) - Oct 14, 2010 - Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB (STO: ABB) said today it has won a three-year contract, worth more than USD 50 million (EUR 35.5m), to provide maintenance services for the grid connections of offshore wind farms, owned by German transmission system operator TenneT TSO.

The wind farms are located in the North Sea off the coast of Germany.

ABB will be responsible for maintaining the high-voltage direct current (HVDC) light connections of TenneT's BorWin1 and DolWin1 projects to the German grid on the mainland. It will maintain the land- and sea-based HVDC converter stations connecting the wind farms as well as the offshore platforms.

BorWin1 connects the world's most remote offshore wind farm to the German grid over a 200-km (124 miles) long underwater and underground cable route. The ABB-built link, including onshore and offshore HVDC converter stations, ensures that power harvested from the 400 MW BARD Offshore 1 wind park will reach German consumers.

Dolwin1 will connect the 400 MW Borkum West II wind farm and other wind farms to be built nearby to the German grid. The 800 MW ABB-built link will include onshore and offshore HVDC converter stations and 165 km of underwater and underground DC cables with a rated voltage of 320 kV.

"Growth of our service business is a key focus area for ABB, and we are in a good position to support TenneT in maintaining the efficiency and reliability of these transmission links," Peter Leupp, head of ABB's Power Systems division, said.

(USD 1.0 = EUR 0.710)

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