DNV has signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with power cable manufacturer LS Cable & System to target emerging cabling opportunities in the offshore wind industry. The MOU comes in response to growing global demand for high-voltage, next-generation power cables with dynamic capa
Britain’s energy regulators are putting billions of pounds of green infrastructure investment at risk by overseeing an energy market which favours EU energy imports at the expense of home-grown schemes, new research has shown. Electricity generators in the UK pay transmission charges for the cost of
Siemens Energy and Aker Solutions have signed a contract with ScottishPower Renewables with the intention to provide high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations for the East Anglia THREE offshore wind project in the UK. The delivery of this EPCI scope for the wind farm’s two converter stat
Anglo-American joint venture Hecate Independent Power Limited (HIP) has launched its HIP Atlantic Project for installing 10,000 MW of fixed and floating wind turbines in the North Atlantic connected to the UK grid. The long-length, high-capacity, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission cable
Petrofac has completed the load out and sail away of the jacket foundation for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Beta platfrom. “Well done to everyone involved. The jacket is now heading to its final destination in the North Sea, where it will then be lifted and positioned in a water depth of approximat
Poland’s Ministry of Climate and Environment has drafted a regulation on the technical requirements for power transmission from offshore wind farms to the grid on land. On 21 May, the Ministry submitted the draft regulation for inter-ministerial arrangements and public consultations, with the deadli
The installation of inter-array cables has been completed at the Windpark Fryslân nearshore wind farm in the IJsselmeer Lake in the Netherlands. The inter-array cables will undergo tests in the coming days, Windpark Fryslân said. The cables connect the wind farm’s 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW wind turbi
Offshore substation (OSS) topsides for the French Saint-Brieuc and Scottish Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farms have been moved out of Engie Solutions and HSM Offshore’s factories in Belgium and the Netherlands, respectively. Ailes Marines selected a joint venture between Engie Solutions and Iemant
SB Submarine Systems’ (SBSS) cable installation barge Fu Yong 6 has completed the installation of the export cable at the Changle Area C offshore wind site in China. Fu Yong 6 carried out the installation of 38.9 kilometers of cable with burial of three meters at the site located off the coast of th
Jan De Nul has repaired TenneT’s AC108 cable connecting the Trianel Borkum offshore substation with Tennet’s DolWin alpha converter station in the German North Sea. The repair job is part of the Service Level Agreement for cable repairs that Jan De Nul and TenneT entered into in 2019. TenneT engaged
Iberdrola and the German transmission system operator 50Hertz have signed an agreement to cooperate with regard to the construction, installation, and commissioning of the offshore substation for the Baltic Eagle wind farm. The jointly used offshore substation will house the technical equipment coll
On 14 May, Sumitomo Electric Industries reported that it was awarded an export cable supply contract for the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm. The news comes a few months after Ofgem ruled in favour of Gwynt y Môr OFTO plc which had filed an Exceptional Event claim for the project’s export cable failu
Ireland’s Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) has published a framework for the country’s future offshore electricity transmission system, which includes appointing EirGrid as the Transmission System Operator (TSO) and the Transmission Asset Owner for Offshore Grid Asset
Anbaric Development Partners has concluded the second set of oceanographic survey activities for its Boardwalk Power Link (BPL) project which will connect offshore wind energy to New Jersey’s onshore grid. Led by ESS Group in concert with Ocean Surveys, the two sets of surveys looked specifically at
