Medium voltage cables are successively being installed at the Global Tech I offshore wind farm where 17 foundations were already installed. 80 wind turbines will be connected with the submarine power cables to the transformer station. A special cable-laying vessel CS Sovereign is performing the layi
Leading manufacturer of major maritime projects, Nordic Yards, has signed a contract to construct an offshore transformer platform. The client, Alstom, with whom Nordic Yards will be working for the first time, was awarded the tender by transmission grid operator TenneT Offshore GmbH. DolWin gamma i
DolWin3 is the eighth grid connection project to be implemented by TenneT using direct current technology. Together with three projects based on AC current technology, TenneT TSO, which is responsible for the North Sea, will then deliver a total of around 6.2 GW of offshore wind energy to the mainla
Transmission System Operator TenneT has awarded the DolWin3 offshore project to Alstom. This project connects the North Sea wind farms to the mainland supergrid and has an investment volume of more than €1 billion. “With this project, we help to take the energy turnaround another step forward and ma
Westermost Rough Ltd, London, and Nexans recently signed an agreement for the delivery and assembly of medium-voltage submarine cables for the Westermost Rough wind farm, which is to be built eight kilometres off the Holderness coast in Yorkshire. The order encompasses around 53 kilometres of submar
With the release of the “Federal Trade Plan for Offshore North Sea”, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) presented the first offshore network plan. The “Federal Trade Plan for Offshore North Sea” concretized and added Maritime Spatial Planning to the planning of electrical networks. I
Specialist contractors working for Forewind will drill three boreholes near the proposed landfall location for the Dogger Bank Creyke Beck export cables this week to understand the soil strata and geotechnical information of the site. The three boreholes will be drilled on arable land approximately
TenneT Offshore GmbH is seeking a contractor to provide underwater ordnance disposal services for an offshore wind farm. The work is expected to be completed by July 01, 2014. The work covers evacuation of munitions along the proposed submarine cable route to connect the Nordergründe offshore wind f
After the RWE npower renewables released their plans on connection of their Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm to the grid, they have hit an obstacle. Mark Simmonds, Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston and Skegness, thinks that these plans are „unsuitable“, as he believes that the wind farm should be
Elia is seeking contractors for submarine HVAC cable system of Belgian Offshore Grid (BOG). The scope of the contract entails a complete installed cable system, which involves design, engineering, construction, supply, installation, burial, handling and commissioning of submarine 220KV AC power cabl
A north west based commercial diving and specialist offshore services company has been awarded a major contract to support the construction of Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm in Liverpool Bay. Hughes Sub Surface Engineering (HSSE), with offices in Bootle, Mostyn and Staines, won a £5million contract
Japanese Government has announced that it will start a transmission grid project in April, which will boost the country’s current wind energy capacity by approximately 600%, Oilprice.com news site informs. The project will be carried out over 10 years, throughout which the necessary funds will be pr
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (“SOC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore Inc., announced that SOC has been awarded the contract for the installation of the inner array grid cables for the Baltic 2 Offshore Wind Farm (“OWF”) project by EnBW Baltic 2 GmbH (“EnBW”), a subsidiary of EnBW Erneu
A proposed offshore wind project in Maryland, supported by Governor Martin O’Malley and his offshore wind bill, could be an outbreak for the U.S. offshore wind industry, as it has already attracted interest from the U.S. unit of Electricite de France SA and may be connected via subsea transmission b
