Ratos Company Aibel and Hitachi Energy sign framework agreement with RWE to accelerate offshore wind integration
Aibel and Hitachi Energy have signed separate framework agreements with the German company RWE for multiple high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems to accelerate the integration of offshore wind power into grid. The agreement follows the signing of a Capacity Reservation Agreement (CRA) last November that reserves the engineering and production capacity to develop three major HVDC projects. The projects will allow electricity transmission from offshore wind farms to onshore connection points.Under the global framework agreements, RWE has contracted Aibel and Hitachi Energy in a split