On 20 December 2010, Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum GmbH & Co KG (“TWB”) activated an order with Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (“NSW”) to deliver and install 65 km of medium-voltage submarine cables for the first construction phase of the Trianel Borkum West II offshore wind farm. The order is worth
Blue Offshore and Integrated Subsea Services have completed their feasibility study on the possible use of multipurpose DP2 vessel Normand Tonjer for array cable installation on offshore wind farms. The scope of the study included development of deck layouts for cable installation and cable burial t
Prysmian, one of the leading worldwide players in the energy and telecommunications cable industry, is to showcase its latest technological innovations, specifically designed to support the development of smarter and greener power grids, at MEE 2011, the electrical industry’s largest tradeshow in th
Two days before the first-ever EU summit on energy, twenty European companies and associations are calling on EU Heads of State to show the courage and vision to create a single market for electricity by 2015. It comes just a few days before the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Single European
Vattenfall today signed a cooperation agreement with four North European energy companies to plan and build an electrical interconnector between the U.K. and Norway. Vattenfall and its partners, Agder Energi, E-CO, Lyse, Scottish and Southern Energy, agreed to establish NorthConnect, a jointly owned
A $616 million loan to a Dutch financial group helps finance the construction of a major high-voltage energy grid with Europe, European… (upi) [mappress] Source: upi, February 02, 2011
Vattenfall has started the cable laying process to connect the Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm to the UK national grid. The 42 km long, 3500… (renewableenergyfocus) [mappress] Source: renewableenergyfocus, February 01, 2011
American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global power technologies company, today reported record financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2010 ended December 31, 2010. Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2010 increased 42 percent to $114.2 million from $80.7 mill
National Grid Offshore, Misubishi and Balfour Beatty Capital are among eight bidders that have qualified to compete for three offshore wind… (newenergyworldnetwork) [mappress] Source: newenergyworldnetwork, February 01, 2011
Andrew Mill, Chief Executive Officer of Narec will be opening the IET Connecting Renewable Energy to the Grid conference, taking place in… By Sheena McGeorge (narec) [mappress] Source: narec, January 27, 2011
The project sets new technological milestones reaching 864MW of power rating and 320 KV DC voltage Prysmian is the industry leader involved in most of the major worldwide offshore Windfarms projects Prysmian, a leading worldwide player in the energy and telecommunications cable industry, has been aw
Nexans, the worldwide leader in the cable industry, has been called in by EnBW (Energie Baden-Wurttemberg) to use its specialized Capjet trenching system to protect the HV (high voltage) subsea power export cables for Baltic 1, Germany’s first commercial offshore wind farm. Nexans provides specializ
Following the grid connections for the offshore wind farm clusters BorWin2 and HelWin1, Siemens Energy will also install a turnkey grid connection in the North Sea for the SylWin cluster. Purchaser is the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT. In a consortium with the Italian cable manufact
The European supergrid plan will explore linking up green energy projects in the North, Baltic and Irish Seas and enable Europe to meet its… (utilitiesnetwork) [mappress] Source: utilitiesnetwork, January 25, 2011
