The Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has voted to review Maine Aqua Ventus GP LLC’s terms for the two-turbine research and development floating wind project off of Monhegan Island, Maine.
Vattenfall and TenneT have joined forces to assess the technical feasibility, regulatory challenges and the benefits of running an interconnector between a substation in the designated offshore wind area IJmuiden Ver in Dutch waters to one of Vattenfall’s substations in UK waters.
International energy company innogy and Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly investigate the opportunities and challenges of offshore wind cross-border interconnectors across a North Sea Wind Power Hub system. Sea.
J. Murphy & Sons has appointed three Lincolnshire-based contractors to work on innogy’s 860MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.
ENGIE Fabricom has loaded out the EnBW Hohe See substation topside at its yard in Hoboken, Belgium. The topside is expected to leave the yard and head to the installation site in the German North Sea soon. The substation’s jacket foundation was installed earlier this month. The substation, built by
Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new control system for offshore wind farms which is said to allow power transmission to the coast in a simpler, more flexible and cheaper way than current solutions.
Human remains dating back to the 11th century were found during excavation work on the South Downs for the Rampion offshore wind farm, with the body showing signs of a traumatic death, E.ON said. Archaeologists from Archaeology South East, UCL, working on behalf of the Rampion project, uncovered the
A new regulatory framework is necessary to support offshore wind investors in developing wind farms and infrastructure ready for future meshed grids, according to WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson.
The Carbon Trust-led Floating Wind Joint Industry Partnership has issued a call for Expression of Interest (EoI) to participate in a competition to support the development of high-voltage dynamic cable designs for commercial floating wind projects.
Jiangsu Hengtong High Voltage Submarine Cable, a subsidiary of Hengtong-Optic Electric, has won a contract to provide 220kV submarine power cables for the Yangjiang Nanpeng Island wind farm offshore Guangdong province, China.
Aberdeen-headquartered subsea cable and connector specialist Hydro Group plc has been awarded a contract with Korea Research of Ships & Ocean Engineering (KRISO), worth in the region of GBP 750,000.
The Merkur offshore wind farm has produced its first power following a successful test on one of the wind farm’s GE Haliade 6MW wind turbines, according to Merkur Offshore GmbH.
50Hertz Transmission GmbH has issued a tender for boulder removal services along the submarine export cable routes between the offshore wind farms in the German Baltic Sea and the landing point in Lubmin.
UK-based EDS HV Group has been appointed to act on behalf of Vattenfall at the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind project in Denmark as high voltage (HV) consultants.
