US-based engineering and construction giant McDermott International has won a sizeable renewables contract from Dutch player TenneT for the BorWin6 wind-farm project off the coast of Germany.

McDermott confirmed the award on Tuesday and termed it “as its largest-ever renewable-energy contract”.

However, the Houston-headquartered contractor did not disclose the value of the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning job.

The contract for the BorWin6 980-megawatt high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) project has been awarded “through a consortium with Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute (GEIRI) and C-EPRI Electric Power Engineering”, it noted.

“The project is for the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of an HVDC offshore converter platform, located 190 kilometres offshore Germany on the Platform North Sea Cluster 7 in a water depth up to 131 feet,” McDermott said.

Electricity generated from offshore wind farms would be converted into direct current and transported to an onshore converter station located 45 kilometres onshore near Buttel, Germany.