Rentel NV will start the transport of the offshore transformer substation topside built for the 309MW Rentel offshore wind farm from the assembly yard in Saint-Nazaire, France to the installation site in the Belgian North Sea on 12 January.
The Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office has begun an environmental review of the proposed Vineyard Wind Connector transmission project.
ScottishPower Renewables is holding public information days in Suffolk, UK, about the upcoming installation of cables which will connect the East Anglia One offshore wind farm to the national grid.
The Carbon Trust-led Floating Wind Joint Industry Project (JIP) has opened tenders for monitoring and inspection, as well as for dynamic export cable development.
The transformer for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Center (EOWDC) arrived at the Blackdog substation site in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 3 January.
Delft-based high voltage engineering and consultancy company Energy Solutions BV has won a contract to provide the Dutch transmission system operator TenneT with heat monitoring systems for sea and land cables.
STX France has loaded a substation topside built for the Rentel offshore wind farm onto a barge in the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port in France.
The transformer for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Center (EOWDC), which recently commenced its final part of the journey to the Blackdog substation site in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is expected to arrive in Blackdog tonight (3 January) and will be transported to the site via Hareburn
Iberdrola has connected its 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm to the German power grid.
German offshore wind farms have generated over 17 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2017, according to the data compiled by the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry (Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien).
The German Federal Network Agency has added two more offshore wind farm connection systems to the revised Offshore Grid Development Plan (O-NEP) 2030.
The rock emplacement campaign for the installation of the first of two export cables in the Beatrice offshore wind farm export corridors and construction site started on 25 December, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited (BOWL) said in a construction update report.
The 2MW Floatgen wind turbine, the first offshore and floating wind turbine to be installed off the French coast, has produced its first electricity in the port of Saint-Nazaire while undergoing tests.
The 92.6 tonne transformer built for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Center (EOWDC) is currently on its way to the installation site in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
