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  • General Cable Shareholders Nod to Prysmian Acquisition

    21 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    General Cable Corporation’s shareholders have approved the acquisition of the company’s 100% share by Prysmian Group.

  • Borkum Riffgrund 2 Substation Topside Starts Rolling

    28 May 2018
    Grid Connection, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    HSM Offshore has started the load-out of the offshore substation topside built for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm at its yard in Schiedam, the Netherlands.

  • Pacific Osprey Installs 100th Foundation at Gemini

    18 September 2015

    Offshore wind installation vessel Pacific Osprey has installed 100th foundation at 600MW Gemini project. The 161m Jack up vessel, owned by Swire Blue Ocean, commenced the operation together with Van Oord’s offshore installation vessel, Aeolus, in July. At the end of the August, using Rambiz heavy lift, Van Oord installed two Offshore High Voltage Stations […]

  • Rambiz Installs Eneco Luchterduinen Transformer Station

    19 February 2015
    Grid Connection

    Rambiz crane vessel, owned by Belgian Scaldis, installed offshore high voltage station (OHVS) in Dutch waters yesterday morning. On Tuesday, the vessel arrived to port of Ijmuiden where it picked up the OHVS which is a part of Eneco Luchterduinen offshore wind farm. Weighting as much as four Boeing 747, around 900 tonnes, the station […]

  • TenneT Hires Taylor Hopkinson Associates

    20 July 2015

    Following a tender process, Taylor Hopkinson Associates, a renewable energy and clean technology human resources consultancy, will be working in collaboration with TenneT over the next four years for the supply of high-level supervision services. Taylor Hopkinson will ensure TenneT is supplied with high-level supervision services and will support the electricity transmission system operator in achieving its target of connecting all offshore […]

  • Kriegers Flak CGS Fully in Operation

    16 December 2020
    Grid Connection

    The Kriegers Flak Combined Grid Solution (CGS) is now completely connected to the grid and in operation. According to Energinet, the trial runs were successfully completed and the recent restart tests after a simulated power outage on both the Danish and the German sides. Kriegers Flak CGS connects the Danish region of Zealand with the […]

  • Petrofac and Hitachi Energy Form Offshore Wind Partnership

    28 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology

    Transmission, distribution, and grid automation solutions provider Hitachi Energy has entered into a collaboration with Petrofac to provide grid integration and associated infrastructure to support the offshore wind market. This collaboration builds on the complementary core technologies and expertise of both companies in offshore wind to support the decarbonization of power systems and deliver clean […]

  • Nkt Cables Celebrates New High-Tech Cable Factory in Cologne With a Large Ceremony (Germany)

    26 October 2010
    R&D

    Today nkt cables opens its new cable factory “f2c” – which is an abbreviation of “flow to customer” – in Cologne. The factory has been constructed on the basis of facilitating optimal cable production. Unique and specialized technical innovations have been integrated into the factory to make the production as efficient as possible. In 2011, […]

  • Rhenus Adds Borssele Beta to To-Do List

    6 March 2020
    Grid Connection

    HSM Offshore B.V. has appointed Rhenus Offshore Logistics B.V. for the commissioning logistics of the Borssele Beta offshore high voltage substation. The 700MW Borssele Beta will connect the Borssele 3 & 4 offshore wind farm to the Dutch grid. Offshore construction on the 731.5MW project started in October 2019, with the commissioning scheduled for 2021. HSM Offshore rolled out […]

  • Seaway Heavy Lifting to Install Elia’s Offshore SwitchYard Platform

    6 March 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has secured a contract to install the Offshore SwitchYard (OSY) platform for Elia’s Modular Offshore Grid (MOG) project in the Belgian North Sea.

  • Petrofac Hires BorWin Gamma Chopper Squad

    17 October 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Northern HeliCopter GmbH (NHC) has received an order from Petrofac Ltd. for transport flights/crew changes to the BorWin3 gamma platform.

  • Dutch Company to Build Offshore Substation Topside for Danish Wind Farm

    17 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch company HSM Offshore BV has signed a contract with Energinet.dk to supply the topside of an offshore substation for the third offshore wind farm at Horns Rev off Blåvands Huk.  The contract with HSM Offshore, worth DKK 207 million (EUR 27.8 million), involves building the topside in Rotterdam, after which it will be shipped to Esbjerg. This […]

  • Prysmian to Showcase Its Offshore Wind Cables at WindEnergy

    22 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology

    Prysmian Group will showcase its state-of-the-art range of products and services for the wind power industry at the 2014 edition of the WindEnergy Hamburg event in Hamburg (Germany) from September 23 to 26, hall A1 booth 122. Long term growth perspectives in the renewable sector and business development strategy have taken the Group to further […]

  • Norway: Oceanteam Shipping Purchases Its Own Shares

    12 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    Oceanteam Shipping ASA (OTS) has on the 10th of August bought 309,960 Oceanteam Shipping ASA shares in the market at an average price of 3.80 per share. The company owns 309,960 treasury shares following the transaction. Oceanteam Shipping is an offshore shipping company. It operates on a global basis where it serves three markets: oil and […]

  • Photo of the Day: Jack-Up Barge’s JB 117 Works on BorWin Beta

    2 May 2014
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: The JB 117 self-elevating platform, owned by Jack-Up Barge B.V., doing its job on the BorWin beta platform. The BorWin beta platform will transform the alternating current (AC) supplied by wind turbines from two offshore wind farms, Veja Mate and Global Tech 1, before converting it to the same […]

  • Prysmian Wraps Up 66kV Subsea Cable System Testing

    17 November 2015

    Prysmian Group has recently completed the electrical type tests on its 66kV complete submarine cable system. Tests were carried out according to CIGRE and IEC testing protocols. The tested solution – that includes also factory, field joints and click-fit terminations – combines the use of EPR insulation with the cost effectiveness of wet design and […]

  • Germany: Sandbank Offshore Wind Seeks Substation Design, Installation

    19 November 2012
    Grid Connection

    Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH is looking for contractors for offshore wind farm works.  The whole project consists of 96 WTGs, WTG foundations, Inter Aray cables and an Offshore Substation (OSS). The windfarm is located in the German Bight, 90 km west of the island of Sylt, in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The location […]

  • Germany: CS Sovereign Commence Wiring at Global Tech I

    27 February 2013
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Medium voltage cables are successively being installed at the Global Tech I offshore wind farm where 17 foundations were already installed. 80 wind turbines will be connected with the submarine power cables to the transformer station. A special cable-laying vessel CS Sovereign is performing the laying of the power cables. CS Sovereign will need to […]

  • World’s First Artificial Energy Island Receives Key Permit

    3 October 2023
    Authorities, Cables, Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Transition

    Belgian transmission system operator (TSO) Elia has secured the environmental permit for the construction of Princess Elisabeth Island, the world’s first artificial energy island. A consortium comprising Belgian marine construction companies DEME and Jan De Nul has already started preparing the site where it will build the caissons, or concrete foundations, in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Completes Credit Rating Trifecta

    22 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has been assigned a BBB long-term credit rating with stable outlook by Fitch. The agency attributes the rating to Siemens Gamesa’s consolidated leading position in the wind industry, with the necessary technical capabilities and scale to compete globally in an industry that is concentrated, volatile and highly competitive, Siemens Gamesa […]

  • GE and Siemens Gamesa Settle Their Wind Turbine Patent Disputes

    3 April 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Equipment, Industry, Infrastructure, Technology

    GE and Siemens Gamesa have resolved their wind turbine technology patent disputes ”in their entirety”, GE said in a statement. ”GE and SGRE have reached an amicable settlement of all their wind turbine technology patent disputes in the United States and Europe on confidential terms and have granted each other and their respective subsidiaries worldwide […]

  • Kriegers Flak CGS ‘Black Starts’ Rostock Power Plant

    9 December 2020
    Grid Connection

    50Hertz and Energinet, together with the coal-fired power plant Rostock have performed a live simulation of a restart of the power grid after a power outage in Continental Europe with voltage supplied from Denmark through Kriegers Flak Combined Grid Solution (CGS). According to 50Hertz, a land and sea cable connection between two countries and offshore […]

  • Heerema’s Thialf Lowers Baltic Eagle Topside Into Place

    23 February 2023
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Heerema Marine Contractors has installed the offshore substation topside for Iberdrola’s Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in Germany. The substation topside, which was completed last month, was installed by Heerema Marine Contractors’ semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) Thialf. The jacket foundation had been placed on the construction site in October 2022. The installation involved the heaviest lifting […]

  • Nexans to Install Inter-Array Cables for Gode Wind Farms

    4 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy is set to increase its offshore wind power capacity in Germany after signing a contract with Nexans for the delivery and installation of 140 km of 34 kV inter-array cables. The inter-array cables will link individual turbines at the Gode Wind 1 and 2 wind farms and connect them to an offshore transformer […]

  • Hitachi Energy Wins HVDC Contracts Worth Over EUR 2 Billion from Amprion

    20 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    Hitachi Energy has signed contracts, totalling over EUR 2 billion, with German transmission system operator (TSO) Amprion to deliver four converter stations for two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) links that will support Germany’s clean energy transition. The orders follow the capacity reservation agreement signed in September 2023, under which Hitachi Energy was picked as the […]

  • Submarine Electricity Transmission Market to Reach $24.8 by 2024

    3 July 2015
    Grid Connection

    Navigant Research has issued a new report which analyzes the global market for submarine electricity transmission systems, including global market forecasts for project value, segmented by technology and region, through 2024. Today, submarine electricity transmission systems are being used more frequently for long and short hauls in undersea, lake, and river interconnection applications, allowing transmission […]