Overview
- 50Hertz announced Thursday that negotiations to build a second offshore converter for the LanWin3 link were successfully concluded with NSORe.
- Under the deals NSORe, a joint venture of Neptun‑Werft and Smulders, will fabricate the steel platform structures while Siemens Energy supplies the high‑voltage conversion equipment.
- 50Hertz says the NSORe share of the two converter projects for LanWin3 and LanWin6 totals about €2.5 billion, with much of the work and services to be carried out in Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern.
- Key fabrication will take place at Neptun‑Werft in Rostock‑Warnemünde and at Smulders’ yard in Vlissingen, a split that boosts regional shipbuilding activity and local supply chains.
- Unions welcomed the follow‑up order and urged that the contracts translate into long‑term, collectively bargained jobs and a stable industrial base as Germany expands North Sea wind links; offshore converters transform wind farm alternating current into high‑voltage direct current for long‑distance transmission.