TenneT has abandoned its plan for the construction of an Offshore Maintenance Centre (OMC) in the north of the Netherlands for the time being.
The company had planned to set up the OMC as a base for maintenance work on the transformer platforms and offshore grid connections for German and future Dutch offshore wind farms north of the Wadden Sea. Since there are no current plans for new offshore wind farms in this sector of the North Sea, building the OMC in the north of the country is not necessary at this time, TenneT explained.
Maintenance personnel working on TenneT’s offshore projects currently do not need an onshore base of operations, because they will perform their work mainly on the offshore platforms or using those platforms as their base of operations, the company added.
According to Dutch media, TenneT was eyeing two locations for the maintenance base: Eemshaven and Groningen.