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  • Saipem 7000, Seaway Strashnov to Begin Dogger Bank B Offshore Construction Work

    9 April 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The installation of the offshore substation topside and monopile foundations is about to commence at Dogger Bank B offshore wind farm, the second of the three 1.2 GW phases of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm in the UK. Installation vessels Saipem 7000 and Seaway Strashnov are expected to arrive at the project site […]

  • Jan De Nul Orders Imeca Pile Gripper for Les Alizés

    6 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology, Vessels

    Jan De Nul has selected Imeca for the delivery of an electrical motion-compensated pile gripper for its new floating installation vessel – Les Alizés. The tailor-made gripper, with an integrated X-Laboratory guidance and survey system, will allow safe and efficient installation of next-generation monopiles with pin-point accuracy, JDN said. The delivery of the gripper delivery […]

  • First Power Flows from World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    10 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The world’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, Dogger Bank, has started producing electricity for the first time for British homes and businesses. The 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm is being constructed in UK waters some 130 kilometres off the coast of Yorkshire and in three 1.2 GW phases known as Dogger Bank A, […]

  • Top News of 2019 – Editors’ Picks

    1 January 2020

    With 2019 now behind us, our editorial team looks back on what shaped the offshore wind industry in the last year of the decade. Below is a subjective list highlighting some of the most impactful events in the sector: UK Offshore Wind Strike Prices Slide Down to GBP 39.65/MWh Offshore wind projects selected in the […]

  • TotalEnergies Buys Into RWE’s Dutch Offshore Wind Farm to Produce Green Hydrogen; Contracts Signed with Main Suppliers

    24 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Green Hydrogen, Manufacturing, Power-to-X, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    RWE and TotalEnergies have entered into an agreement under which TotalEnergies will acquire a 50 per cent stake in RWE’s OranjeWind offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. TotalEnergies said it would use its share of the electricity from the 795 MW OranjeWind to produce green hydrogen. The new partners have now also taken the final […]

  • Colombia Offers 15-Year Contracts in Country’s First Offshore Wind Round

    13 August 2025
    Authorities, Business development, Planning & Permitting, Research & Development

    Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has issued a new resolution launching the country’s first offshore wind bidding round, which will operate under a contract for differences (CfD) scheme. The round is designed to promote strategic technologies that strengthen the resilience and sustainability of the National Interconnected System, according to the ministry. Colombia guarantees prices […]

  • Bottlenecks Loom Unless Installation Vessels Keep Pace with Super-Sized Wind Turbines – Report

    2 February 2022
    Vessels

    Offshore wind turbines are growing in size as technology advances and demand for renewable energy soars but installing them could be a headache for operators as demand will outpace the supply of capable vessels by 2024, Rystad Energy research shows. Operators will have to invest in new vessels or upgrade existing ones to install the […]

  • Subsea Cable Connecting DolWin Epsilon Platform to Land Installed

    23 July 2025
    Cables, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms

    The laying of the subsea cable that connects the DolWin epsilon platform to land has been completed. The platform and the cables, part of TenneT’s DolWin5 grid connection, will transmit the electricity generated by Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm to the German grid on land. The DolWin epsilon platform was installed this June. […]

  • Construction of ‘Asia’s Largest HVDC Cable Facility’ Wraps Up

    21 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business development, Cables, Grid Connection, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    South Korean subsea cable manufacturer LS Cable & System has completed the construction of what it says is the largest high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable production facility in Asia. LS Cable & System announced on 16 July that it had completed the construction of its fifth submarine cable plant in Donghae-si, Gangwon-do, more than quadrupling […]

  • Substation Installed at Denmark’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm

    28 July 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The jacket foundation and the substation topside have been installed at the 1 GW Thor offshore wind farm site in Denmark. Following the jacket and topside’s sail-away from HSM Offshore Energy’s Schiedam yard in the Netherlands, the installation of the 2,600-tonne topside was executed offshore, with the heavy-lift vessel Gulliver of Scaldis SMC placing the […]

  • Nexans, Crowley Wind Services Partner on US Cable Lay Barge

    1 August 2025
    Business development, Collaboration, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Vessels

    France’s cable systems designer and manufacturer, Nexans, has partnered with Crowley Wind Services to develop and operate a Jones Act-compliant cable lay barge, aiming to support subsea transmission work for offshore wind and other industries across the US. The 300-foot barge, flagged and crewed in the US, is being built in Louisiana and tested in […]

  • Prysmian Reaches New Voltage Highs

    24 May 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Prysmian Group has announced the successful development and testing of its new 700 kV MI-PPL (Mass Impregnated) and 600 kV extruded (XLPE) cable systems for high voltage direct current (HVDC) applications.   “It is the first time in the cable industry that voltages at these high levels have been achieved,” said Massimo Battaini, Senior Vice President Energy […]

  • Technavio: Offshore Wind Growth Driving Subsea Cable Market

    12 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Technavio has issued a report on the most important trends expected to impact the global submarine power cable market outlook from 2016-2020. According to Anju Ajaykumar, a lead analyst at Technavio for research on engineering tools: “The offshore wind power generation sector is the major end-user of submarine power cables. Utility companies deploy these cables […]

  • Polygen Deploys Wave Energy Device

    24 August 2015

    UK-based Polygen has deployed its wave energy converter prototype in the waters off Falmouth, Cornwall this month. Called Volta, the device is the first wave energy converter to be built almost entirely from high-density polyethylene (HDPE). It is the second device to be deployed at FaBTest – the only wave energy-testing site of its kind […]

  • Nexans Opens High Voltage Test Lab in Calais

    22 November 2017
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    Nexans has opened a new high voltage test laboratory at its Calais Center of Excellence in France, making it fully operational with the capacity to test cable systems up to 1.5 million volts.

  • JDR Unveils New High-Voltage Inter-Array Cable

    28 July 2016
    Grid Connection, R&D, Technology

    JDR, the UK based supplier of subsea power cables and umbilicals to the offshore energy industry, has showcased its new high-voltage inter-array cable and accessories at its latest customer technology day held at Hartlepool College of Further Education. The company says that its new 66 (72.5) kV cable technology ”will be critical to support the offshore wind […]

  • Three Applications Submitted in Malta’s First Offshore Wind Tender

    23 July 2025
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    The Maltese government has received three submissions in the pre-qualification period for the country’s first offshore wind tender, which will award a concession for a floating wind project with an installed capacity of around 300 MW. The Ministry for the Environment, Energy, and Public Cleanliness said on 22 July that the submission phase for the […]

  • China Okays ABB Medium Voltage Wind Turbine Converter

    28 February 2017
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Technology

    ABB’s PCS6000 medium voltage wind turbine converter has received product certification from the China General Certification Center, CGC.

  • London Array’s High Voltage Team Moves into New Office

    18 November 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    DONG Energy and National Grid have both joined the growing tenant community at Discovery Park in Kent, Europe’s largest science and technology park. The site had just five tenants when it was taken over by Discovery Park Ltd, a private consortium, two years ago. Since then, it has attracted a host of companies locally, nationally […]

  • E.ON to Install 180 New Voltage-Regulated Distribution Transformers

    28 May 2014
    Grid Connection, Technology

    E.ON distribution system operators (DSOs) in Germany will put up to 180 new voltage-regulated distribution transformers (VRDTs) into service by the end of the year. About 60 of the VRDTs, which incorporate technology from Bavaria-based Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen (MR), are already operational. The nationwide rollout, which will encompass all of E.ON’s distribution systems in Germany, makes […]

  • ABB and NKT Complete High Voltage Cable Business Deal

    1 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology, Vessels

    ABB completed the divestment of its high-voltage cables and cable accessories businesses to NKT Cables, on Wednesday, 1 March.

  • MacArtney Group to Display Medium Voltage Inline Termination in Warwick, USA

    29 May 2013
    Grid Connection, Technology

    On June 10th 2013, when doors open to the 10th edition of the annual Energy Ocean International Conference in Warwick, Rhode Island – global provider of underwater technology solutions, the MacArtney Group, will be displaying a full-scale section of a Medium Voltage Inline Termination on its exhibitors stand. Underwater connectivity plays an increasingly vital role […]

  • Princeton Power Systems Presents High-voltage DC Transformer (USA)

    20 December 2011
    Technology

    Princeton Power Systems (PPS) today uncovered its bi-directional high-voltage DC Transformer, a new technology used for transmission and distribution applications. The transformer will function as a beneficial power management device, distributing power between two or more remote locations in Alaska. The DC transformer, scheduled to be installed in early 2012, is the first of its […]

  • Vattenfall Prior to Anti-Coal Protest: Lignite Reliable Partner to Volatile Renewables

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Environment

    Several environmental organisations will protest against the usage of brown coal for energy production in the Lusatia region this Saturday. Activists from several countries will try to form an eight kilometre human chain between Kerkwitz in Germany and Grabice in Poland. Greenpeace, Bund and Berliner Energietisch are some of the organisations that will take part in […]

  • New Project Looking to Raise OWF Array Voltage Beyond 66 kV

    20 May 2021
    R&D

    A new joint industry project has been launched as part of the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme with an aim to build industry consensus on setting the future standard array voltage for offshore wind farms. The High Voltage Array Systems (Hi-VAS) project aims to understand the costs, benefits and technology challenges associated with raising the […]

  • Offshore Wind Accounts for 45 Pct of NKT’s High-Voltage Order Backlog

    21 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Cables, Grid Connection, Manufacturing, Supply Chain

    Subsea power cable manufacturer NKT has reported a record-high order backlog for high-voltage cables for 2023, with 45 per cent of orders coming from offshore wind. At the end of last year, NKT’s order backlog was at EUR 10.8 billion, more than double the company saw at the end of 2022. In its full-year 2023 […]