K2 Management has been awarded the four-year construction monitoring contract on the first two phases of the 3600MW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which reached financial close in November.
The appointment follows a two-year contract which saw K2 Management deliver technical advisory for lenders on behalf of project joint venture partners, SSE Renewables and Equinor.
Dogger Bank will be the first wind farm in the world to install GE Renewable Energy’s 13MW Haliade-X turbine.
The project will also be the first in the UK to use a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission.
The construction monitoring scope includes the monitoring of permitting, design, manufacturing and construction activities and project expenditure on behalf of a consortium of international lenders.
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Perennial electricity outages in Western Kenya could soon end once the Sh8 billion Olkaria-Lessos-Kisumu power line is completed.
Work on the 400kV line is at an advanced stage. The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (Ketraco) expects the project to be done by end of this month, and power transmission to start by mid this year.
The line is expected to evacuate electricity from geothermal-rich Olkaria in Naivasha to the Western and Nyanza regions, which for years have relied on hydropower.
Ketraco engineer Brian Simiyu said the line would provide stable electricity for the region.
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He admitted that due to unreliable weather, it was a challenge to supply Western Kenya with stable power.
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