Procurement of managed stakeholder engagement; support services for structuring, initiation and management of discussions with policy makers.

TenneT Netherlands, TenneT Germany, Energinet and Gasunie joined forces — in the North Sea Wind Power Hub (NSWPH) consortium — to develop a large scale European electricity system for offshore wind. A new approach to offshore wind connection and grid integration is required, both from a techno-economical as well as from a market and regulatory perspective. This is due to the scale of the offshore wind roll-out required to meet the Paris Agreement climate targets (~150-450 GW), the short time window for realisation (30 years) and the unfolding energy transition as a whole (form fossil to net zero emission).

Based on this Scope of Work the consortium intends to procure support services to assist the consortium for structuring, initiation and managing structured discussions with policy makers to realise a first hub-and-spoke project in the early 2030s.

The overall goal of the services requested is to support the consortium in delivering on the topical agenda – and maximise the success of it — through:

1) Development and execution of a structured process to develop political consensus and prepare timely decision making on key issues to facilitate international agreements to support cross-border, cross-sector offshore wind projects after 2030;

2) Management of a transparent process of discussion preparation, collection and integration of feedback and preparation for decision making;

3) Development of — or managing the procurement of external services for

Development of – discussion papers on key topics.

All activities aim to facilitate public commitment in the form of a project-specific Memorandum of understanding (MoU) or intergovernmental agreements between countries.