RWE has selected a consortium of GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine to provide the electrical transmission system for the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind project in the UK. As the consortium leader, GE Grid Solutions will be responsible for the engineering, procurement, construction
German transmission system operator in charge of grid connections in the Baltic Sea has issued a tender for routing services for the grid connection route OST-1-4. The work scope includes pre-route planning services and preparation of the necessary technical approval documents for the seaside sectio
Kriegers Flak Combined Grid Solution (CGS) has transmitted the first power between Denmark and Germany. The high-voltage cable system connects the Danish region of Zealand with the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania via the 605 MW Kriegers Flak and 288 MW Baltic 2 offshore wind farms. It
Sea & Land Project Engineering has been appointed to provide the detailed design of the offshore transformer station jacket and foundations for the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind farm. The offshore transformer station consists of a 45m jacket weighing 1,930t and 870t piles supporting a topside s
The export cables for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust Zuid grid connection have been sent off from Greece to the Netherlands, according to the Dutch cable logistics company WIND, which handled the load-out. The company has been hired by Van Oord to provide subsea cable logistics for the grid connection proj
Vattenfall has issued a tender seeking a manufacturer of inter-array cables for the Vesterhav Syd and Nord nearshore wind farms in Denmark. The selected party will be in charge of supplying all the required work for the inter-array cable manufacturing for the two wind farms. The contract would start
The termination and testing of the export and array cables at the Windfloat Atlantic project has been completed, JDR Cable Systems said via social media. The third and final floating wind turbine was towed to the project site at the end of May, with connection to mooring and electrical lines then le
Ørsted has awarded Semco Maritime with a one-year service contract for programmed preventive maintenance on the two offshore substations at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 and 2 wind farms offshore Germany. Semco Maritime will perform maintenance work on the substations’ LV utilities and fire, safety, and st
Siemens Energy has shipped off the first of the three Offshore Transformer Modules (OTMs) to be installed on the 950 MW Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland. The first OTM began its journey from the fabricator to be installed at the offshore wind farm some 22 kilometres off the Aberdeenshire coast
The launch of Kriegers Flak Combined Grid Solution (CGS) has again been delayed, now until the end of September. The final steps of the commissioning procedures for the overall CGS system are confronted with ongoing movement restrictions for the Swedish team members due to the coronavirus pandemic,
German transmission system operator 50Hertz has launched an economic and climate initiative aiming to draw 100 per cent of the electricity delivered from renewable sources by 2032. 50Hertz supplies eastern German states and the city states of Berlin and Hamburg with electricity. The TSO is in charge
Works to install the Borssele Beta export cable in the Netherlands will set TenneT back an additional EUR 50 million after contractors discovered unstable soil along the cable route. Namely, the cable installation contract TenneT signed with NKT and VBMS (now Boskalis Subsea) in 2016/2017 will now b
TenneT TSO B.V. has awarded Next Geosolutions with a contract to carry out cable route surveys on three wind zones in the Dutch North Sea. The transmission system operator has also signed a backup agreement with Fugro for the work. Under the agreement, Next Geosolutions will carry out cable route su
German transmission system operator Amprion has presented a concept for connecting offshore wind farms across Europe. The Eurobar (European Offshore Busbar) concept aims to integrate offshore wind power into the European power grid so that it makes the best possible contribution to climate objective
