The European Commission has awarded a EUR 530 million grant for the Celtic Interconnector electricity link between Ireland and France. The decision comes after Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar and President of France Emmanuel Macron sought financial support from the Commission in May fo
NKT has completed the HVDC power cable system at the Caithness-Moray electricity transmission link in Scotland. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. NKT completed the turnkey project of the 320kV HVDC XLPE offshore and onshore power cable sys
50Hertz and Parkwind have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the technical aspects of the Ostwind 2 grid connection project in the German Baltic Sea. The essential aspects of the MoU include specific agreements for the development, procurement, construction and operation of
Subsea 7 S.A. has won a contract for the installation of the submarine cable system on an offshore wind farm project in Taiwan. Project engineering will commence immediately at Seaway 7’s offices in Leer, Germany, and in Taipei, Taiwan, the company said. Offshore activities at the wind farm are expe
Tractebel Engineering GmbH and Tractebel Overdick GmbH are developing a concept for an offshore platform which makes it possible to produce hydrogen from offshore wind energy at an industrial scale using electrolysis. Delivering up to 400MW, this kind of plant exceeds the output of previous technolo
Dutch-German grid operator TenneT has awarded Prysmian Group with a three-year service level agreement covering reactive maintenance operations of its HVAC and HVDC submarine and land assets. “We are delighted to support TenneT in fulfilling its asset management strategy, designed to reduce to the m
Dutch energy network company Alliander and Ørsted have signed an agreement through which Alliander will purchase green certificates from the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind farm. The agreement takes effect in 2021 and has a duration of fifteen years. Alliander aims to have a climate-neutral business oper
EDS HV Group has completed testing, jointing and termination work at Elia’s Modular Offshore Grid (MOG) in the Belgian North Sea. EDS worked to establish a connection between the MOG’s offshore submarine cables and the onshore cables at Elia’s Stevin 380kV onshore substation in Zeebrugge. Sub-contra
Triton Knoll has given an update on the construction of the two offshore substations destined for the 860MW offshore wind project. According to Triton Knoll, a transition piece for the offshore substation has left the construction hall at Smulders’ Wallsend facility in the UK. The company has now co
Ørsted has contracted Hellenic Cables to supply subsea cable that will be used as spares for its offshore wind farms in the UK. Under the contract, Hellenic Cables is in charge of the design, manufacture and testing of the 33kV inter-array submarine cable. The company will produce 23km of cable at i
First Subsea has delivered beach landing cable protection systems for three export cables at the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. First Subsea secured a contract in February for the three 250m long systems, which it delivered to Jan De Nul at the end of March. According to the Lancast
Dutch transmission system operator TenneT TSO B.V. has issued a tender seeking unexploded ordnance (UXO) consultancy services covering zones in the Dutch North Sea identified in the Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2030. As the designated offshore grid operator for the future wind farms, TenneT is respo
Eversendai Offshore has cut the first steel for the jacket foundation destined for the Alpha platform at the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm zone in the Netherlands. The wholly-owned subsidiary of Eversendai Corporation Berhad is in charge of the engineering and fabrication of the six-legged
Great Yarmouth-based Stowen has won a contract to deliver a complete cathodic protection system to Equinor’s two Sheringham Shoal offshore subtations. The work will take place in the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020. The installation of the system will ensure the life expectancy
