NKT Cables has taken delivery of the newbuilding cable-laying vessel which was part of the recently completed acquisition of ABB HV Cables.
Siemens Wind Power CEO to Head Siemens-Gamesa Offshore Business Markus Tacke, previously CEO of Siemens Wind Power, will head the Offshore business at the new company established by Siemens and Gamesa – Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. GE Rolls Out First Merkur OWF Nacelle The first out of the total
National Grid UK and France’s Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) have awarded contracts with a combined value of around EUR 620 million for the supply of cables and converter stations for the 1,000MW IFA2 interconnector.
The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) has found the application submitted by the Icebreaker Windpower Inc. for a certificate to construct the 20.7MW Icebreaker offshore wind farm in Lake Erie not to be in compliance with certain chapters of the Ohio Administrative Code.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide a EUR 350 million loan to TenneT to finance the 1.4GW NordLink high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea interconnector between Norway and Germany.
The 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm has started delivering power to the German grid, Nordsee One GmbH, the owner and developer of the project, reports.
The second offshore substation built by the Engie Fabricom/Iemants consortium for DONG Energy’s 660MW Walney Extension wind farm has set sail from the Engie Fabricom site in Hoboken, Belgium, bound for the wind farm in the Irish Sea.
Trelleborg’s offshore operation has completed a series of wet tests to verify the capabilities and functionality of its NjordGuard cable protection system for installation and removal on J-tube and monopile interfaces for offshore wind farms.
TenneT launched and priced the first-ever green hybrid bond in an amount of EUR 1 billion on 29 March.
German offshore wind farms in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea generated 12.09 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2016, a 45.7 percent jump compared to 8.3 TWh generated by wind farms off Germany in 2015, TenneT reports.
Dutch transmission system operator TenneT has invited tenders for provision and installation of high voltage alternating current (HVAC) cables that will connect the three offshore substations at the 1.4GW Hollandse Kust (zuid) and the 700MW Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm zones to the main
The European Commission has found support to be granted to the 600MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in Danish territorial waters to be in line with EU state aid rules.
Fugro’s multi-purpose offshore vessel Fugro Symphony will return to the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm next week to install the remaining inter-array cables at the site located some 13 kilometres off the Sussex coast.
The governments of Flanders and the Netherlands have reached an agreement on the Borssele subsea cables that will run through the Western Scheldt (Westerscheld), the estuary of the Scheldt river and an important shipping route for the Belgian Port of Antwerp.
