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  • Norther Picks Mechanical Services Provider

    7 March 2022
    Operations & Maintenance

    GEOxyz has won a contract to provide service and maintenance, in particular mechanical services, for the Offshore High Voltage Substation (OHVS) and the foundations at the Belgian Norther offshore wind farm. Under the five-year contract, the company’s scope of services will comprise troubleshooting, unscheduled corrective maintenance, scheduled inspections and maintenance, and statutory inspections. The mechanical […]

  • ABB, Aker Solutions Join Forces on Offshore Wind

    9 September 2021
    Business & Finance

    ABB and Aker Solutions have added offshore wind to a strategic alliance agreement the two companies signed in 2016 for seabed solutions for oil and gas. The updated agreement, which now also includes offshore fish farming, covers electrical and control for seabed solutions and offshore wind, power-from-shore and electrical, instrumentation, control and telecommunications for offshore […]

  • ABB Gear for DolWin5

    5 March 2020
    Grid Connection, Technology

    ABB has won a EUR 10.6 million order for ABB Ability™ digital products and services at TenneT’ DolWin5 (Epsilon) grid connection in the German North Sea. Under the order, ABB will provide a system for IT infrastructure, OT1 security, plant-wide condition monitoring, SCADA2, and remote access services to facilitate stable power transmission to the German […]

  • First SeaMade Offshore Substation Transition Piece Heads to Rotterdam

    18 October 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The first offshore substation transition piece and J-tube cage for the SeaMade offshore wind farm are on their way from Belgium to the Sif terminal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, DEME Group said. The transition piece was loaded out at Smulders’ yard in Hoboken. Together with the foundation, which is already in Rotterdam, the transition piece and […]

  • NEMO Link Starts Commissioning Phase

    5 December 2018
    Grid Connection

    The NEMO interconnection link between Great Britain and Belgium is entering the commissioning phase.

  • CWind Reburies Export Cable at Prinses Amaliawindpark

    3 August 2017
    Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    CWind, part of Global Marine Group (GMG), has completed a remedial cable burial project for Prinses Amaliawindpark (Princess Amalia Wind Farm), a wind farm off the Netherlands’ west coast.

  • Ridderflex Equips GeoSea for Inter-Array Cable Connection

    9 November 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Dutch company Ridderflex has produced and delivered about 180 customised polyurethane hang-offs and plugs to GeoSea, the company now using these tools to connect the inter-array cables to the wind turbines at Belgian Rentel offshore wind farm.

  • GeoSea Installs Rentel OSS Foundation

    27 September 2017
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The foundation for the offshore substation (OSS) at Belgian Rentel offshore wind farm was installed at the project site last week, STX Europe Offshore Energy reported yesterday, 26 September. 

  • NIRAS, Intertek Net Viking Link Job

    4 January 2016
    Grid Connection

    NIRAS and Intertek have been appointed by Energinet.dk and National Grid Viking Link Limited as marine consultants to assist with the permitting of Viking Link, a proposed high voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector between Great Britain and Denmark. Betina Heron, Executive Director for Environment and Energy in NIRAS, said: “This contract reinforces our expertise in permitting and EIA for […]

  • ABB to Service Lynn and Inner Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm

    28 April 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    ABB has secured an electrical services contract for the 194MW Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farm in the east of England. The Swiss company will undertake maintenance of 54, 3.6 MW offshore wind turbine generators, as well as the electrical equipment over the period of two years. The contract includes the electrical maintenance and support services for […]

  • Ground for COBRAcable Broken in Denmark

    10 October 2016
    Grid Connection

    Danish Energy Minister Lars Christian Lilleholt and Chairman of Energinet.dk, Kim Andersen, broke ground for the COBRAcable today, thus marking the start of works on the subsea interconnector between Denmark and the Netherlands.  The groundbreaking event took place at the site of Energinet.dk’s high-voltage station in Endrup at Esbjerg. From 2019 onwards, two parallel 325km long cables will send power […]

  • LOC Bags New Offshore Wind Gig in Korea

    22 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Korea Offshore Wind Power (KOWP) and Swiss Re have awarded LOC Group a contract for marine warranty surveying (MWS) services on the 60MW test phase of Korea’s Southwest Offshore Windfarm Project.

  • Norther Turbines Start Their Final Journey

    1 February 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord’s jack-up vessel Aeolus is at MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s pre-assembly site in Vlissingen to load the first turbine components for the Norther wind farm and install them in the Belgian North Sea. The wind farm comprises 44 MHI Vestas V164-8.4 MW wind turbines to be installed on monopile foundations some 22 kilometres offshore Zeebrugge. The […]

  • 50Hertz Pulls In Ostwind 2 Land Cables

    29 June 2021
    Grid Connection

    German transmission system operator for the Baltic Sea, 50Hertz, has pulled in the land cables for the Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection. The Ostwind 2 land cables have now been installed underground over a distance of three kilometres from the landing point, where the sea cables meet the mainland, to the Lubmin transformer station. Using […]

  • Siem Offshore to Lay Cables at RWE’s Nordsee One OWF

    22 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore Inc., announced today that SOC has been awarded the contract for the turnkey supply and installation package of the inner array grid cable system for the Nordsee One Offshore Wind Farm, a project developed by RWE Innogy GmbH. The offshore wind farm will […]

  • Top News of the Week, 14 – 20 November 2016

    20 November 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Iemants and Jan De Nul Win Kriegers Flak OSS Foundations Work Energinet.dk and 50Hertz Transmission GmbH have awarded Iemants and Jan De Nul Group with a contract to construct, install, ballast and protect gravity based foundations (GBFs) for two offshore substations. ABB Unveils Lightweight, AC Platform-Free HVDC Solution ABB has presented a new, compact, high-voltage […]

  • TenneT Presents Borssele Offshore Platform Design (VIDEO)

    23 March 2016
    Grid Connection

    Along with the news that TenneT had been confirmed as the operator of the Dutch offshore grid, the TSO reported that it had finalized the design for the offshore platforms which will be part of the connection of the planned wind farms to the onshore grid.  In the coming years, TenneT will build five identical platforms with […]

  • Saint-Nazaire Export Cable Installation Kicks Off

    11 August 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Prysmian has started installing the export cables which will connect the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm to the French grid. The Italian cable manufacturer deployed its cable-laying vessel Cable Enterprise on the project. The cable pull-in operations started off the Courance beach on Sunday, 9 August, Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE), the French transmission […]

  • Nexans Takes Delivery of CLV Aurora

    3 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Nexans has taken delivery of its newbuild DP3 cable laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Aurora from Ulstein Verft. Nexans Aurora will be named at a ceremony in Ulsteinvik on 8 June, before leaving for its homeport Halden and Nexans’ subsea high voltage cables competence center. The vessel is delivered on time despite the Covid-19 pandemic, with […]

  • GE Renewable Energy Taps Endiprev for Saint-Nazaire Work

    20 January 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Endiprev has been selected by GE Renewable Energy to be the main engineering service supplier on the commissioning of the first commercial offshore wind farm in France, the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm. The 480 MW Saint-Nazaire wind farm, also known as Parc éolien en mer du Banc de Guérande, will comprise 80 GE Haliade 150 […]

  • First Borssele Alpha Cable Makes Landfall

    15 April 2019
    Grid Connection

    The first cable that will connect the Borssele Alpha offshore high voltage substation in the Dutch North Sea to the transformer station at Borssele has made landfall, TenneT said. On Friday, 12 April, Boskalis started to pull in the sea cable on land and early Saturday morning the cable reached the newly built transformer station. […]

  • China Prioritises Renewable Power

    29 March 2016
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    Chinese government’s energy and other regulatory agencies have obliged all transmission system operators (TSOs) to grid-connect all renewable energy facilities that meet technical requirements of their networks.  The requirement has been issued by National Development and Reform Commission and National Energy Administration. According to the document, the new rules are helping secure the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption […]

  • CWind Halfway There on Wikinger

    3 May 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Colchester-based offshore services provider CWind has reached the halfway point on a 15-month project to provide a wide range of secondary works at Iberdrola’s 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.

  • First Turbine Up at Yangjiang Nanpeng Island Offshore Wind Farm – Video

    11 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) has installed the first wind turbine on the 400MW CGN Yangjiang Nanpeng Island offshore wind farm. The installation of the first 5.5MW turbine off Guangdong Province in the South China Sea was completed on 27 June, CGN said. Also, 16 wind turbine jacket foundations have so far been installed […]

  • Offshore Wind’s Growth Drives HVDC Converter Station Market

    22 October 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Research and Markets has added the “Global HVDC Converter Station Market 2014-2018” report to their offering. According to the report, the global HVDC Converter Station market will grow at a CAGR of 22.2% over the period 2013-2018. A high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) converter station is a specialized type of substation, which is used as an end-to-end equipment […]

  • Sif Joins BorWin Gamma Team

    10 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Dutch Sif Holding N.V. has been awarded a contract for the production of all tubular components for the jacket of the BorWin gamma platform.  The contract includes the production of legs, bracings, pile sleeves and pin piles for the jacket. The project is being undertaken by Petrofac in consortium with Siemens for the German-Dutch transmission grid operator […]