National Grid has selected Siemens Energy as preferred bidder for Sea Link’s HVDC converter stations in Suffolk and Kent, UK.

Highlights Sea Link is a proposed new 2-gigawatt (GW) high voltage direct current (HVDC) electricity transmission system and includes converter stations, one built in Suffolk and one in Kent, . . .

National Grid has reached a major milestone in the Sea Link project with the appointment of Siemens Energy as the preferred bidder for the development of two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) ...

National Grid also awarded four suppliers – GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, Hitachi Energy and Mitsubishi Electric – places on an HVDC converter framework agreement totalling £24.6bn. Contracts have been ...

The HVDC converter systems framework has been granted to GE Vernova, Hitachi Energy, Mitsubishi Electric and Siemens Energy.

The selected converter system suppliers are the United States’ GE Vernova Inc., Switzerland’s Hitachi Energy Ltd., Japan’s Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Germany’s Siemens Energy AG ...

Additionally, advancements in voltage source converter (VSC) technology have improved the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of HVDC systems, making them more attractive for new power transmission ...