Nexans Norway has secured NOK 2 billion (around GBP 155 million) in loan guarantees from Export Finance Norway (Eksfin) that will be used for a UK export cable contract. The transaction covers the export and installation of high-voltage subsea cables for the Moray West offshore wind farm off the coa
Hitachi Energy and WindEurope have published a new report which outlines that Europe needs to invest more in the so-called meshed grids to ensure its offshore wind development. Meshed grids are clusters of offshore wind farms with fewer cables connected to the shore that can route power to two or mo
Ørsted has awarded Taiwan Cogeneration Corporation (TCC) a contract to build the onshore substation for the 920 MW Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms. The contract award follows Ørsted’s final investment decision on the offshore wind farms last month. Under the contract, Star Energy Corpo
New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has requested PJM Interconnection (PJM), New Jersey’s regional grid operator, to include New Jersey’s current public policy of 11 GW of offshore wind by 2040 into PJM’s Regional Transmission Expansion Planning (RTEP) using their State Agreement Approach (
UK energy market regulator Ofgem has received the application for an electricity interconnector license for the recently announced LionLink multi-purpose interconnector that will connect the UK and the Netherlands. The application was submitted by National Grid Lion Link Limited for a license that w
Hellenic Cables has signed an agreement with the Swedish energy company Vattenfall to supply inter-array cables for the Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone in the UK. Under the agreement, the Greek cable manufacturer will provide approximately 850 kilometres of aluminium cables which will be used to connect
Construction activities on the two offshore substations for the Hornsea Three offshore wind farm in the UK have kicked off at Aibel’s yard in Thailand. Ørsted, the developer of Hornsea Three, signed an EPCI contract with partners Aibel and Hitachi Energy for the two platforms in 2022. Under the cont
The Netherlands and the United Kingdom have unveiled their plan to build what they say would be a first-of-its-kind electricity link to connect offshore wind between the two countries via interconnectors. LionLink, a multi-purpose interconnector that was announced today at the North Sea summit, coul
The world’s first unmanned High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore substation has been installed at what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank, off the UK. The substation is the first of three platforms, supplied by Aibel, to be installed at Dogger Bank, which is
After recently awarding EUR 23 billion worth of contracts for eleven offshore grid connections, the German-Dutch transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has now signed a new, EUR 7 billion contract with a consortium of Siemens Energy and Dragados Offshore for three more such projects in Germany. U
Dutch upstream oil and gas company, ONE-Dyas, has awarded N-Sea with a contract to install a subsea power cable between the Riffgat offshore wind farm in the German North Sea and the new, to-be-built N05-A gas production platform. The scope of N-Sea includes the complete scope comprising survey, des
The transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has unveiled a new approach for the electricity grid for 2045 which is designed to cope with the challenges of the energy transition. With Target Grid, TenneT is proposing a network of direct current (DC) superhighways and energy hubs, the DC grid (elect
France’s RTE (Réseau de Transport d’Electricité) has awarded Fugro with a contract to perform a geotechnical investigation for future offshore substations at two floating wind farm sites in the Gulf of Lion in the Mediterranean Sea. Fugro’s Geo-data will provide insight into seabed conditions, not o
VicGrid, a new body established by the government of the Australian state of Victoria that coordinates the overarching planning and development of the state’s renewable energy zones (REZ), has initiated early consultation on new transmission connections for offshore wind with an aim to select prefer
