DEME has completed the laying of the HVDC cable for the DolWin6 offshore grid connection in the German sector of the North Sea, using its LNG-powered, DP3 vessel Living Stone. According to the company, this was the first time a cable laying vessel installed cables while running on LNG. The 900 MW tr
The world’s largest offshore converter station has set sail from Nantong and is en route to the Jiangsu Rudong offshore wind project in China’s Yellow Sea. The topside is expected to arrive at the site on 11 July, according to China Three Gorges Renewables, the developer of the project. After the Th
Delivery of onshore cables for Dogger Bank Wind Farm has started, according to Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK, the company responsible for installing the cables for the first two phases of the offshore wind project. The first drum with the cables has already arrived and Jones Bros are set to commen
The Netherlands-based Twentsche Kabelfabriek (TKF) has secured a contract by Van Oord for the supply of inter-array cables for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project. TKF will manufacture and deliver 140 kilometers of 66 kV inter-array cables and associated accessories for the wind farm loca
Nexans has inaugurated a new cable harness production facility in the city of Tianjin, China, dedicated to the local wind energy industry. The facility has 3,000 square meters of production and storage space and will manufacture M12 sensor cables, valve connectors, and customized solutions specific
Vos Prodect Innovations (VPI) has secured a contract with Twentsche Kabelfabriek (TKF) to supply cable hang-off systems for the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm. Under the contract, VPI will engineer and deliver the low, 250-milimetre high, version of its cable hang-off system. The delivery wi
NKT has secured a contract to deliver and install the HVDC onshore and offshore export cables at the Dogger Bank C offshore wind farm in the UK. The scope of work includes the manufacture, delivery and installation of more than 2×250 kilometres total system length of 320 kV DC offshore export power
German transmission system operator for the Baltic Sea, 50Hertz, has pulled in the land cables for the Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection. The Ostwind 2 land cables have now been installed underground over a distance of three kilometres from the landing point, where the sea cables meet the mainland,
Offshore cable-laying work to link the DolWin6 grid connection in the North Sea to the German grid has started, TenneT said. The cable-laying work follows an unexploded ordnance removal campaign where a total of twelve UXOs identified along the sea cable route were removed in May 2021. The 39-kilome
Heerema Marine Contractors’ heavy lift vessel Sleipnir has installed the second offshore substation jacket foundation at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm offshore the Netherlands. Located 22 kilometres off the Netherlands coast, the 2,852-tonne jacket will support TenneT’s 700 MW Hollandse Kust Zui
BW Ideol and Hitachi ABB Power Grids have partnered to develop scalable floating substations for floating wind farms. The substations will consist of BW Ideol’s shallow-draft floating platforms and transformers, switchgear and other high-voltage products specially developed by Hitachi ABB Power Grid
The first of two export cables has been installed at the nearshore of Thorntonloch Beach as part of the construction of the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project in Scotland. The offshore cable was transported to the nearshore area of Thorntonloch Beach by Prysmian’s 124-meter long cable layi
Export cable burial works are set to soon commence at the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind project in the UK. The burial of the first export cable is due to begin in the week commencing 21 June, with burial of the second cable planned to begin week commencing 19 July 2, at the earliest. [&hellip
A 1,400-ton Kaskasi offshore substation topside has arrived from Poland to Bladt Industry’s site in Aalborg, Denmark for further outfitting with the electrical equipment. Energomontaż-Północ Gdynia (EPG) shipped out the topside from the Port of Gdynia on 1 June. The unit arrived in Aalborg last week
