Framework Agreement Soil Investigation - Offshore

On the basis of legal foundations, TenneT has had the mandate to establish and operate the grid connection for offshore wind farms in its transmission grid area in Germany since December 2016. To ensure this mandate and security of supply, TenneT builds and operates offshore converter stations in the German Bight of the North Sea. Due to the political and social consensus for an accelerated expansion of offshore wind energy use, numerous new offshore converter substations will have to be built in the future. In the course of tendering and planning the HVDC platforms, information about the subsoil are required as a basis for planning. For this purpose, geophysical and geotechnical subsoil investigations (in short: INVESTIGATION) must be carried out.