Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables has won a tender for the supply and installation of a cable system that will run between the offshore and onshore substations at one of Europe’s new offshore wind grid connections. This is an excerpt from a Premium article published on our sister site Offshor
Baltic Power has selected preferred contractors for the supply and installation of offshore and onshore cables, and the onshore substation for its 1.2 GW offshore wind farm in Poland. NKT will design and manufacture the offshore export cables, while the inter-array cables and the onshore section of
Anbaric Development Partners has released a Notice of Solicitation for offshore wind developers with projects in the New York Bight who wish to deliver energy and renewable energy credits into the New York State Bulk Power System via the transmission facility Juno Power Express. The US electric tran
French cable maker Nexans has finalised a second US-based contract with Ørsted and Eversource to supply the export cable system for the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm. Located more than 15 miles south of the Rhode Island coast and 32 miles east of the Connecticut coast, the project will connect
NKT is set to produce the HVDC power cables for the Dogger Bank C offshore wind project using low-carbon copper, representing the world’s first. The initiative is expected to reduce the carbon footprint of the cables by more than 35 per cent. The low-carbon copper cathodes are sourced from the Bolid
Transmission system operator TenneT has announced a large-scale high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable tender for offshore grid connections in the German North Sea and the Dutch North Sea. TenneT will need direct current cables for at least ten connection systems for wind energy transmission from
Transmission system operator TenneT has selected Fugro Germany Land GmbH to carry out geophysical and geotechnical soil investigations at the BalWin1, BalWin2, and BalWin3 offshore platform locations in the German North Sea. The contract covers the execution of geophysical and geotechnical soil inve
Equans has loaded out the topside for the offshore substation of the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm that is being built in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The company, which is delivering the platform in partnership with Smulders, loaded out the topside on 12 September on the Scheldt alo
Prysmian has been awarded two contracts including options by Amprion Offshore GmbH, a subsidiary of German transmission system operator Amprion, for the design, supply, installation, and commissioning of land and submarine cables for the DolWin4 and BorWin4 offshore wind farm grid connection systems
Rotech Subsea has completed “challenging” cable de-burial, cut and recovery works at the Triton Knoll offshore wind project in the UK for a dredging and marine contractor. The Aberdeen-based company deployed its RS2-3 Hybrid controlled flow excavation (CFE) tool to complete the de-burial of approxim
Energy Ministers from the nine members of the North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) have agreed to reach at least 260 GW of offshore wind capacity by 2050. This will represent more than 85 per cent of the EU-wide ambition of reaching 300 GW by 2050. At their ministerial meeting in Dublin, under the I
NextEra Energy Transmission MidAtlantic (NEETMA), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Transmission, and WindGrid, a subsidiary of Elia Group, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation on a New Jersey offshore wind transmission project. Under the MoU, the companies will work together
France-headquartered Nexans has completed the installation of all the subsea cables and onshore cables on the 1,075 MW Seagreen wind farm offshore Scotland. Nexans has supplied and installed three 65-kilometre offshore export cables and three 20-kilometre onshore export cables for which the company
Jan De Nul’s jack-up Vole au vent has now installed all 80 GE Haliade 150-6 MW wind turbines at the Saint-Nazaire wind farm site offshore France. Vole au vent transported the wind turbines from the Nantes-Saint Nazaire Port and installed them at the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in Franc
