UK energy market regulator Ofgem is inviting tenders to own and operate prebuilt electricity links including cables and substations which connect Seagreen 1, Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, to Great Britain’s mainland energy network. This will be the ninth tender round Ofgem has conducted und
Fugro has secured a new contract with Denmark’s Energinet to undertake cable route surveys for the North Sea Energy Island project. The North Sea Energy Island will serve as an offshore power plant distributing up to 10 GW of offshore wind to Denmark and other neighbouring markets. Fugro will perfor
Transmission system operators 50Hertz and TenneT are planning to jointly transport 4 GW of wind power from the North Sea into the German power grid. The two companies have signed a cooperation agreement to realise a multi-terminal hub in the area of Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, and an extra-high volta
Eversource and Ørsted have selected Long Island-based contractor Haugland Energy Group to install the underground duct bank system for the onshore transmission line for their 132 MW South Fork offshore wind farm and to lead the construction of the project’s onshore interconnection facility located i
Hellenic Cables has completed the cable manufacturing and loading for shipment of inter-array cables for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW), executing the contract awarded by Dominion Energy for the partial supply of array cables for the 2.6 GW project. Hellenic Cables was responsible for the
German offshore wind farms produced 24 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2021, a 10.75 per cent decrease compared to the record-breaking 26.89 TWh of electricity generated in 2020. The wind farms in the North Sea generated around 20.3 TWh of electricity in 2021, the transmission system operator
French power cable manufacturer Nexans has received an order to deliver approximately 110 kilometres of high voltage subsea export cables for the South Fork offshore wind project in New York. The three-phase 138 kV high voltage alternative current (HVAC) subsea export cables will be integrated with
Tokyo-based PowerX, Inc. has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with DNV to collaborate on the technical assessment of the Power Transfer Vessel (Power ARK) and its battery system, as well as the potential development of a new class notation for Power ARK’s global implementation. Thro
James Fisher Renewables has won three multi-million pound 13-15-year contracts supplying specialist operations and maintenance (O&M) services to support informed decision-making for offshore transmission asset owners (OFTOs) at Thanet, Gwynt-y-Môr, and Humber offshore wind farms in the UK. The contr
The commissioning team working at Ørsted’s 900 MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a wind farms off Taiwan has completed power-on tests on the project’s second offshore substation (OSS). According to the developer’s social media update, the testing was completed on 1 January, following the same work done on
The topside of the Hollandse Kust (zuid) Alpha (HKZ Alpha) offshore substation has been installed on its jacket foundation in the Dutch North Sea, some 20 kilometres off the coast of The Hague. HKZ Alpha is one of the two 700 MW offshore substations that TenneT ordered at Petrofac and that will conn
China Three Gorges (CTG) fully connected to the Chinese grid three offshore wind projects with a combined capacity of 3.1 GW on Saturday, 25 December. The three projects in question are the 1.1 GW Jiangsu Rudong and the 1.7 GW Yangjiang Shapa, the first two gigawatt-scale offshore wind farms in Chin
The 802 MW Jiangsu Qidong, China’s largest offshore wind farm, achieved a full capacity grid connection on Saturday, 25 December. The Jiangsu Qidong offshore wind farm comprises three projects; H1, H2, and H3, each with an accompanying offshore booster station. The wind farm is located between 31 an
Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator Litgrid has, in cooperation with Japan’s TEPCO Power Grid, started preparing a study intended to assess technical and economic alternatives for the integration of offshore wind into the power supply system. Lithuania plans to carry out the auction
