Hitachi Energy recently announced that it has won a major order from Samsung C&T Corporation, which is one of the world’s largest engineering and construction companies, to connect Adnoc’s offshore operations to the onshore power grid, which is owned by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (Taqa), according to media reports.
Hitachi Energy’s HVDC Light technology and MACHTM digital control platform1 will facilitate the transfer of cleaner and more efficient power from the mainland that will help power Adnoc’s offshore production operations. It will also enable a carbon footprint reduction of Adnoc’s offshore operations by more than thirty percent.
Claudio Facchin, CEO of Hitachi Energy told the media, “We are proud to be enabling Abu Dhabi and Adnoc to make significant progress on their pathway toward achieving the United Arab Emirates’ ambition to be carbon-neutral by 2050. At Hitachi Energy, we are championing the urgency of the clean energy transition, and this major order is further evidence that we are a ‘go to’ partner for developing and deploying technologies and solutions that are advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible and secure.”
This innovative solution will bring forward Hitachi’s commitment to helping customers and countries to transition towards a carbon-neutral future and help enable the ‘2050 Net-Zero Initiative’ of the UAE. The plant comes with a capacity of 3,200 megawatts and both the HVDC links will be by far the most powerful power-from-shore solution in the Middle East and North America (Mena) region to date.