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FEATURE SUBSEA POWER in Trondheim in 2018-2019.

Siemens close to qualified

Since then, the company has been working through lessons

Another JIP was run by Siemens Energy to deliver 6 MVA of power over 200km and distribute it locally, is ongoing. learned, says Eduardo Pimentel Silvestrow, product life cycle

Supported by Chevron, Exxon, Equinor, and Eni Norge (now manager for the Subsea Power Grid at Siemens Energy.

It’s reached TRL 4 on the VSD, making it ready for commercial

Vår Energi), Siemens Energy is adding a VSD (now at TRL4), switchgear and controls to its already quali?ed transformer, all use, alongside the already quali?ed transformer. The switchgear has been through an optimization project with a new version cur- for 3,000 m water depth.

Siemens’ entire subsea power distribution grid, including rently going through testing and is expected to be ready for com-

VSDs, transformer, switchgear, and control, all in oil-?lled mercial use in 2021. The power grid would work alongside Sie- pressure compensated enclosures or 1-atmosphere control mens’ DigiGRID, which is an open architecture infrastructure and canisters, was put through a full shallow water test in a dock communication platform facilitating all-electric control systems.

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