The uncertainties over which companies were to take responsibility for the separate areas dissolved in the course of the first
weeks of the summer of 2011. Klemt had never had readymade contract forms with him forthese décisive talks in Bremen's
Swiss Hôtel. "We set out the results of our negotiations as a draft
version on the iaptop ourselves", Klemt recounts. Another approach to save time. Obviously the drafts were later checked and
approved by lawyers.
There were "few points of conflict" during the negotiations, recalls Klemt, and "discussions were held in a spirit of coopération
and were never marked by anything such as legal nit-picking."
There is no other explanation for the fact that the major contractual negotiations were essentially concluded in less than four
months. "That was certainly a record, normally negotiations of
this nature take up to two years", says Klemt with a knowledge
born of many years of professional expérience. He has now
taken on the project management for wpd for the next offshore
wind farm project at Nordergründe. "I never had the feeling we
wouldn't get the contracts done in time", he concludes.
wpd selected the following partners for the main components
of the project: the transformer platform was awarded to a consortium from Belgium formed by Cofely Fabricom GDF Suez,
CG, lemants and GeoSea, and the cables, and the task of connecting the 80 turbines to the farms own transformer substation,
went to Visser B Smit Marine Contracting from the Netherlands.
As well as the foundations, what was still missing on August 31,
2011 was agreement on a supplier for the turbines. Internally, the
management team for the Butendiek project at wpd had opted
for turbines from Siemens. The SWT-3.B-120, to give it its official
désignation, was then considered to be the workhorse among
offshore wind turbines, as it still is today. No turbine has been
used more frequently in offshore wind farms than this 3.6 MW
turbine from Siemens. The Irish company, Airtricity, had already
wanted to use this turbine for Butendiek and had signed a preliminary contract with Siemens.
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weeks of the summer of 2011. Klemt had never had readymade contract forms with him forthese décisive talks in Bremen's
Swiss Hôtel. "We set out the results of our negotiations as a draft
version on the iaptop ourselves", Klemt recounts. Another approach to save time. Obviously the drafts were later checked and
approved by lawyers.
There were "few points of conflict" during the negotiations, recalls Klemt, and "discussions were held in a spirit of coopération
and were never marked by anything such as legal nit-picking."
There is no other explanation for the fact that the major contractual negotiations were essentially concluded in less than four
months. "That was certainly a record, normally negotiations of
this nature take up to two years", says Klemt with a knowledge
born of many years of professional expérience. He has now
taken on the project management for wpd for the next offshore
wind farm project at Nordergründe. "I never had the feeling we
wouldn't get the contracts done in time", he concludes.
wpd selected the following partners for the main components
of the project: the transformer platform was awarded to a consortium from Belgium formed by Cofely Fabricom GDF Suez,
CG, lemants and GeoSea, and the cables, and the task of connecting the 80 turbines to the farms own transformer substation,
went to Visser B Smit Marine Contracting from the Netherlands.
As well as the foundations, what was still missing on August 31,
2011 was agreement on a supplier for the turbines. Internally, the
management team for the Butendiek project at wpd had opted
for turbines from Siemens. The SWT-3.B-120, to give it its official
désignation, was then considered to be the workhorse among
offshore wind turbines, as it still is today. No turbine has been
used more frequently in offshore wind farms than this 3.6 MW
turbine from Siemens. The Irish company, Airtricity, had already
wanted to use this turbine for Butendiek and had signed a preliminary contract with Siemens.
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