A draft law that regulates offshore wind liability issues and lowers the limit on damages that grid operators must pay for delays when connecting offshore wind farms to the grid has been approved by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet and will take effect later this year. So far, grid operator
Parties of the German ruling coalition agreed yesterday to lower the limit on damages that grid operators must pay for delays when connecting offshore wind farms to the grid, Joachim Pfeiffer from the Christian Democratic Union told Bloomberg. The limit on damages when grid companies are found negli
Germany is expecting to solve the liability issue in offshore wind sector by the end of this year, so the bill aiming to provide investment security for the industry could enter into force early in 2013. Peter Altmaier, German Environment Minister, is quoted by Bloomberg as saying that he is hoping
Danish and UK energy ministers discussed the development of a subsea cable between the countries as a project of major importance for renewable energy, Subsea UK reports. Denmark is considering the increase of links to foreign electricity markets as it prepares for the growing role of alternative so
National Grid, an international electricity and gas company, has faced opposition in their intention to install electricity pylons across North Wales, BBC informs. Namely, the grid would connect Horizon’s proposed nuclear power station at Wylfa of up to 3.6 gigawatts (GW), together with 2 GW of offs
Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH is looking for contractors for offshore wind farm works. The whole project consists of 96 WTGs, WTG foundations, Inter Aray cables and an Offshore Substation (OSS). The windfarm is located in the German Bight, 90 km west of the island of Sylt, in the German Exclusive Econ
DC Netz BorWin5 GmbH is seeking contractors for 2 separate windfarm projects – BorWin5 and DolWin4. BorWin5: System for transmission of electric power (approximately 900 MW) between offshore wind farms in the cluster BorWin and a grid connection point on land. In particular, the transmission power,
TenneT Offshore GmbH is seeking contractors for manufacturing, supply and installation of AC submarine cables, including fibre optics. Subsea cabling will be done in the region of the cluster SylWin, designed for a transmission capacity of up to 300 MW per wind farm and a power level of about 155 kV
CPNL Engineering GmbH, provides and engineers cable protection equipment, announced that the firm will supply a complete cable protection system, which will be used for the NSO offshore wind project of RWE, a leading utilities company in Germany. RWE is the first company to adopt the cable protectio
Offshore handling systems specialist, Caley Ocean Systems, has been awarded a contract to supply leading dredging and marine engineering company, Jan de Nul NV, with a 5,400Te capacity cable turntable for the MPV Willem De Vlamingh. Mid 2013, Jan de Nul is installing 245kV export cable connecting th
For the approximately 160 residents on Anholt, Anholt Offshore Wind Farm means that from 2014, the island will be connected to the Danish grid via the offshore wind farm. Energinet.dk will lay a 28km long submarine cable from the substation in Anholt Offshore Wind Farm to the island in the Kattegat.
Windreich AG has announced that TenneT ensured grid connection for Windreich’s offshore wind farm Global Tech I ahead of schedule by connecting to an existing converter station platform (BARD I). The 400 MW offshore wind farm is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013, comprising 80 Areva Multi
Building on an already established regime for the awarding of offshore transmission licences in which over £2 billion of assets have been tendered for, Ofgem is now running a further tender competition for the transmission assets that connect the West of Duddon Sands wind farm to the onshore grid. T
Carbon Trust is planning to conduct the offshore wind cable study. A significant number of UK offshore wind farms have experienced difficulties associated with the installation and burial of intra-array cables. In 2011, the OWA commissioned a study to develop recommendations for optimised cable inst
