Prysmian Group has chartered Global Marine Systems Limited’s cable-laying vessel, the C.S. Sovereign, for the work on 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Her remit will be to install inter array cables, from mid-2016 into early 2017, at the German offshore wind farm that is currentl
TenneT, the Dutch electricity transmission system operator, has mapped the export cable route for the Borssele offshore wind farm zone. The cable will come ashore at Borssele, less than a kilometre from TenneT’s existing 380 kV substation. “This is the outcome of an intensive process, in which all i
One of Europe’s largest municipal utilities, Trianel, has officially cut the ribbon at its 200MW Borkum West 2.1 offshore wind farm. This is the first offshore wind project owned by municipal utilities with 50% of them coming from North Rhine-Westphalia. Johannes Remmel, Minister for Climate Protect
The first homemade 220KV photoelectric composite submarine cable, produced by Ningbo Oriental Group Co. Ltd., has recently been approved and accepted. The cable will be used at the 400MW offshore wind power project, to promote the green development of the offshore wind power industry. It is reported
Energinet.dk, the Danish transmission system operator, has decided to postpone Anholt offshore wind farm cable repair. The operation was scheduled for the late September. However, due to an error in NKT’s replacement cables, the work had to be pushed back. A new date will be announced promptly. “The
Van Oord has installed the two Offshore High Voltage Stations (OHVS) and first 77 transition pieces at the Dutch Gemini Wind Park. The realisation of the large offshore wind project construction is proceeding as planned. The OHVS installations were built in Hoboken, Belgium, and transported to Eemsh
50Hertz held a starting ceremony for the Ostwind 1 offshore cable construction project earlier this month. The Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Erwin Sellering, attended the ceremony in the company of 80 other guests active in politics, administration, industry and media. “At ove
“Fukushima Shimpuu”, the largest floating offshore wind turbine in the world, left Onahama port on July 28th and arrived at the testing area the next morning. “Fukushima Shimpuu” has a 7MW output capacity, which is 3.5 times the capacity of the 2MW “Fukushima Mirai”, which started operation in the f
The first two Vos Prodect’s monopile entry systems (Pro-MES) have been installed by Van Oord, at Gemini offshore wind farm project by the end of week 32. Pull-in of both first end and second end of the cable were completed on schedule and without any problems. Pro-MES systems have been tailored to t
VBMS has been awarded a contract by E.ON for the installation of two 16 kilometre-long export cables for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. The 150kV HVAC cables will transport the power ashore from the 400 MW wind farm to the onshore cable in Brooklands Pleasure Park in Worthing, South East England. V
By granting West of Duddon Sands (WoDS) Transmission plc a licence to own and operate the £269 million transmission link to the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm, the total new transmission investment delivered by the OFTO regime to date is over £2.5 billion, of which nearly £1 billion has now
West of Duddon Sands, a joint venture owned by DONG Energy and ScottishPower Renewables, has signed an agreement for the sale of transmission assets to WoDS Transmission plc. WoDS Transmission plc is owned by a consortium comprising of Macquarie Corporate Holdings Pty Limited and 3i Infrastructure p
Energinet.dk is planning to replace two cable sections at Dong Energy’s Anholt offshore wind farm. Following a fault on a export cable in February, transmission operator in cooperation with NKT Cables identified there is a risk of error in the first 400 meters of the submarine cable from Grenå and t
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