Siemens Gamesa has awarded Prysmian Group with a contract to provide cable and assembly supplies for wind turbines worldwide. Prysmian will supply turbine tower and nacelle cables and assemblies for Siemens Gamesa turbines in 2020. The supply includes low voltage cables and assemblies for nacelle pl
Rongxin Huiko Electric (RXHK) has won a contract to supply a set of converter valves for the onshore converter station of the Rudong offshore wind demonstration project in China. RXHK will supply ±400kV 1,100MW VSC HVDC converter valves for the station, including all insulators and AC-DC hardware fi
The value of the global market for subsea power cables will grow by 57% from GBP 717 million this year to over GBP 1.13 billion by 2023, according to a new report by RenewableUK. Subsea power cables stretching over 16,300km in length, nearly the distance between London and Sydney, will be needed ove
Dutch-German offshore grid operator TenneT TSO has issued a tender for two high voltage direct current (HVDC) systems, offshore, and onshore converters for the 4GW Ijmuiden Ver offshore wind zone. TenneT will develop two 2GW offshore HVDC grid connections for integrating IJmuiden Ver wind farms into
Correll Services has completed the subsea and land cable termination and testing works at the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Correll Services was in charge of project documentation, export cable (HV & FO) jointing at the TJB and OSS, array cable terminations (HV & FO) on 22 assets,
The first transformer station has been delivered to the onshore substation of the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK. The transformer set sail from the manufacturing site in Austria towards the Sutton Bridge port in Lincolnshire, from where it was lifted onto a trailer and driven 20 miles to
Orient Cable’s Ningbo Orient has delivered the first batch of subsea cables for China General Nuclear Power Corporation’s (CGNPC) Daishan 4 offshore wind project in China. According to the Chinese company, the first batch of 35kV subsea cables, totaling 23.8 kilometers and weighing more than 1,800 t
Diamond Transmission Partners has signed an agreement with the owners of the Race Bank offshore wind farm to acquire the project’s transmission assets. Diamond Transmission Partners, a partnership of Diamond Transmission Corporation Ltd and HICL Infrastructure PLC, was selected as the preferred bidd
EDS HV Group has carried out studies on the grid connection system for the Kincardine floating offshore wind farm in Scotland. Under a contract with Cobra Group, the UK-based company was in charge of power system research which included load flow, short circuit, fault ride through, reactive compensa
The European Commission has awarded a EUR 530 million grant for the Celtic Interconnector electricity link between Ireland and France. The decision comes after Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar and President of France Emmanuel Macron sought financial support from the Commission in May fo
NKT has completed the HVDC power cable system at the Caithness-Moray electricity transmission link in Scotland. This content is available after accepting the cookies. Change cookie-settings View on Youtube. NKT completed the turnkey project of the 320kV HVDC XLPE offshore and onshore power cable sys
50Hertz and Parkwind have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the technical aspects of the Ostwind 2 grid connection project in the German Baltic Sea. The essential aspects of the MoU include specific agreements for the development, procurement, construction and operation of
Subsea 7 S.A. has won a contract for the installation of the submarine cable system on an offshore wind farm project in Taiwan. Project engineering will commence immediately at Seaway 7’s offices in Leer, Germany, and in Taipei, Taiwan, the company said. Offshore activities at the wind farm are expe
Tractebel Engineering GmbH and Tractebel Overdick GmbH are developing a concept for an offshore platform which makes it possible to produce hydrogen from offshore wind energy at an industrial scale using electrolysis. Delivering up to 400MW, this kind of plant exceeds the output of previous technolo
