The joint venture between SSE Renewables, TotalEnergies and PTTEP has signed an agreement with a consortium of Equitix and Kyuden Group to sell the offshore transmission assets of the Seagreen Phase 1 offshore wind farm in Scotland. The Seagreen 1 transmission assets transmit electricity from the of
Vattenfall has contracted DEME Offshore for cable protection system (CPS) stabilisation work on the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany. The offshore wind farm owner/operator opened the tender for CPS stabilisation work in June last year. According to a contract award notice publishe
Louis Dreyfus TravOcean and Prysmian will soon resume the inter-array cable installation at the Îles d’Yeu and Noirmoutier offshore wind farm site in France. According to a recent social media post from Louis Dreyfus TravOcean, 5 strings and 37 cables are left to be installed and connected at the si
Construction activities on the Scottish Inch Cape offshore wind farm are scheduled to start this April with construction work within the project’s export cable corridor. According to a Notice to Mariners from the project team, the work will commence with operations at the export cable landfall site
Geophysical survey operations and a static fishing gear survey are taking place within the Inch Cape offshore wind farm site and its associated export cable corridor from 19 February until the end of April. On behalf of Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between ESB and Red Rock Renewables,
Siemens Energy has selected the German company Pfisterer for the supply of turnkey cable systems for the BorWin4 and DolWin4 offshore grid connections in the North Sea. Pfisterer is in charge of implementing the entire 66 kV AC cable infrastructure between the gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) transfor
Quality assurance provider Intertek, on behalf of the Danish transmission system operator Energinet, has carried out a risk assessment for five export cables that will be part of offshore wind farms planned to be built in the Danish sectors of the North and Baltic Seas. The export cables that were t
The LionLink interconnector, a subsea cable that will connect the future Nederwiek 3 offshore wind farm in the Netherlands to the UK grid and interconnect the two national power networks, is planned to make landfall in Walberswick on its UK side. On 19 February, National Grid Ventures (NGV) said it
Balmoral Comtec, part of Balmoral Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with LS Cable & System and LS Marine Solution to collaborate in the floating offshore wind sector and on the 750 MW Bandibuli/Firefly project in South Korea. The agreement with the Scotland-based buoyancy, protec
Global Underwater Hub (GUH) has launched a new initiative to tackle subsea cable reliability, a critical factor in offshore wind development, as the UK pushes to meet its clean energy targets. The industry body, representing the UK’s GBP 9.2 billion (around USD 11.3 billion) underwater sector, has p
Seaway7, part of the Subsea7 Group, has awarded Houston-headquartered Helix Robotics Solutions a contract for the burial of inter-array cables at the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm site in the UK. The contract is expected to last over 300 days and is scheduled to commence in the third quarter of 2026.
The first batches of high-voltage (HV) 220 kV and extra-high-voltage (EHV) 400 kV onshore cables have been delivered for the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms, which are being jointly developed by Equinor and Polenergia. Poland’s Tele-Fonika Kable (TFK) delivered the first 24 drums, with a t
Tekmar Group has been awarded a contract for the delivery of its cable protection system (CPS) and associated ancillaries for a UK-based offshore wind project. The contract is valued in the region of GBP 5 million (approximately EUR 6 million). The UK-based company will be responsible for the design
Prysmian has informed local authorities in Somerset, Massachusetts, about the company’s decision not to move forward with the factory for offshore wind power cables that was planned to be built at Brayton Point on a site that previously housed a coal-fired power plant which was shut down in 2017. Ac
