The renewable energy consultancy OWC has been awarded a contract to provide cable engineering support to the Green Volt floating offshore wind farm in Scotland, developed by Flotation Energy and Vårgrønn. OWC’s scope of work includes cable engineering for both offshore and onshore cables. The subsea
Denmark’s NKT has finalised the installation of a 320 kV high-voltage DC (HVDC) power cable system at the 900 MW BorWin5 offshore grid connection in Germany. The pull-in work to the offshore platform was carried out by the company’s NKT Victoria vessel. NKT was responsible for the delivery and insta
The initial section of the first export cable for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm has left the Port of Blyth and is currently en route for installation off the coast of Scotland. The cable-lay vessel, CMOS Installer, has left the port with the 28-kilometre section of the 220 kV, three-phase export
The Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) for the Hollandse Kust West Beta cables have been completed in the Dutch North Sea. The substation will connect the OranjeWind offshore wind farm, developed by RWE and TotalEnergies, to the onshore electricity grid. The testing of two 220 kV export cable systems for p
The US subsea engineering and applied technology firm Oceaneering International has secured a GBP 400,000 (around EUR 465,000) grant from Scotland’s economic development agency Scottish Enterprise for a project that aims to add manufacturing capacity for subsea power cables destined for Scottish off
China’s ZTT Submarine Cable & System has begun construction of an advanced cable laying vessel (CLV) that will service offshore wind, island interconnections, and regional grid expansion projects in Asia Pacific (APAC). The new-generation, self-propelled CLV will be 139.8 meters long, with a 38-mete
ZTT Submarine Cable & System (ZTTSC) has secured a 500 kV submarine cable contract for Shenzhen Energy’s 500 MW Honghai Bay VI offshore wind project in China. The engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract encompasses 94 kilometres of 500 kV 3-core HVAC submarine cables
Prysmian has awarded two contracts to Next Geosolutions (NextGeo), one of which is in the Dutch offshore wind market, where NextGeo will carry out export cable route surveys for the IJmuiden Ver Alpha and Nederwiek 1 offshore wind sites. The second contract NextGeo secured with Prysmian is for the B
Asso.subsea has been awarded a nearshore cable installation contract for three projects under TenneT’s 2 GW programme in Germany. The projects are BalWin4, LanWin1, and LanWin5, located off the northwestern coast of Baltrum Island, in northern Germany. The contract marks the beginning of a new colla
Texas-headquartered Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has launched the first US-flagged, Jones Act-compliant subsea rock installation vessel (SRIV), with delivery expected early in 2026. Acadia, launched at the Hanwha Philly Shipyard, Pennsylvania, is capable of transporting and installin
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
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 plan
South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution is investing USD 360 million for the first phase of construction of its second submarine cable manufacturing facility, which will, once operational, deliver a production capacity nearly five times greater than the company’s first submarine cable plant. Taihan ope
The first section of the export cable for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm has been pulled ashore, making landfall at Bawdsey in Suffolk. NKT, which is supplying and installing the export cable for the project under a turnkey contract secured in 2022, started working on East Anglia Th
