![From left: Mette H. Ottøy, Chief Procurement Officer and Geir Tungesvik, Executive Vice President for Projects, Drilling and Procurement at Equinor and Niklas Persson, Managing Director of Grid Integration business and Thomas Stenberg, Equinor Global Account Manager at Hitachi Energy Equinor and Hitach Energy](/images/stories/News/News2022/Equinor_and_Hitach_Energy.jpg)
Initial areas of focus for the collaboration include developing standardised base designs to be applied for high-voltage direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) transmission systems to connect offshore wind farms and Equinor production facilities to mainland power grids. The scope of the agreement covers the complete spectrum of Hitachi Energy’s portfolio of power grid technologies and solutions.