Borehole Survey to Be Carried Out for Dogger Bank Teesside (UK)
An onshore geotechnical survey near the proposed landfall location for the Dogger Bank Teesside export cables, between Redcar and Marske-by-the-Sea, will be carried out next week (starting Tuesday,...
View ArticleGermany: Construction of Trianel’s Borkum Offshore Wind Farm Reaches Next Stage
The installation work for the internal transformer platform for Trianel’s Borkum wind farm was successfully completed yesterday. During a two-day mission at the construction site, 45 kilometers off the...
View ArticleTenneT Requires Seabed Survey Work (Germany)
TenneT Offshore GmbH is responsible for the connection of the electrical substation of the offshore wind farms in the HelWin2 cluster. In order to connect the wind farms with the onshore AC grid TenneT...
View ArticleSubmarine Cable Laying Services Needed for Innogy Nordsee 1, Germany
Innogy Nordsee 1 GmbH is seeking for submarine cable laying services for its offshore wind farm situated 32 km north of the island of Juist between the traffic separation area Terschelling-German Bight...
View ArticleGermany: First Submarine Cable Section Laid for Baltic 2
The work for the network connection of the second German offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, the EnBW Baltic 2, is in progress. The vessel Aura rinsed the first submarine cable section into the...
View ArticleTanzania: Zanzibar Eying Marine Renewables as Reliable Power Source
Zanzibar President Ali Mohamed Shein officially launched a new 100 megawatts marine cable line from the national grid (Tanzania mainland) on April 10, a sign of energy progress which is expected to...
View ArticleTop News of the Week Apr 22 – 28, 2013
Zaratan: 3 Monopiles in 36 Hours (Germany) Following the news that almost 60 monopiles had been completed on 18 March, specialised jack-up vessel Seajacks Zaratan continues installation at a rapid pace...
View ArticleUK: Jee Completes Cable Installation at Gunfleet Sands 3
Jee Ltd, a leading subsea engineering and training firm, has just completed a contract with Technip Offshore Wind Ltd for the provision of subsea power cable installation engineering on a new and...
View ArticleTechnip Starts Work on Borkum OWF in Germany
Technip Offshore Wind has started offshore operations on an array cable installation contract for phase 1 of the Borkum Wind Farm development, located 45 kilometers to the North of the German island of...
View ArticleDenmark: Dong Saves Three Days Per Installed Cable
Each time, a cable is installed between wind turbines at an offshore wind farm, time spent offshore can be reduced by approximately three days. A new cable laying concept from DONG Energy points the...
View ArticleUSA: Narragansett Town Council Suspends Talks with Deepwater Wind until June
On Monday, May 6, the Narragansett Town Council voted 5-0 to suspend negotiations with Deepwater Wind, which is developing the Block Island offshore wind farm, in order to gather more information on...
View ArticleNorway and UK Sign Agreement for Subsea Interconnector
National Grid and Statnett confirm plans for further development of the world’s longest subsea interconnector. British energy company National Grid and Statnett, the Norwegian transmission system...
View ArticleThe Netherlands: DolWin Alpha Converter Platform Starts Journey to Open Sea
On May 18, the topsides of the DolWin alpha converter platform was loaded out from Heerema’s Zwijndrecht fabrication yard at the Drechthaven, located on the river the Oude Maas. This operation marks...
View ArticleVIDEO: Load Out of DolWin Alpha Converter Platform
The load out of DolWin alpha marks the start of a journey that the platform will make to its final offshore destination, the DolWin area in German North Sea. This operation was performed at the...
View ArticleCarbon Trust Launches Competition for Next Generation of Offshore Wind Cables...
The Carbon Trust, as part of its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), has launched a new competition to fast track the development of new 66kV cables to be used by the offshore wind industry. The goal is...
View ArticleSweden: Cable Repair Starts at Lillgrund OWF
Since May 12, the Lillgrund offshore wind farm has been standing still. The work to repair the export cable – which transmits the electricity from the wind farm to the substation on land – is underway....
View ArticleUK: Hydro Group Launches 36kV Dry Mate Hydro Bond Renewable Connector
Aberdeen-based Hydro Group Plc launches new product, set to be a technological lead in the offshore renewable energy systems market. The group, a global design and manufacturer of underwater cables and...
View ArticleGermany: DolWin1 Project Back on Schedule
Despite delays in converter platform launch, ABB will see DolWin1 wind power connection completed on schedule. Thomas Schmidt, a spokesman at Zurich-based ABB said for Blumberg that he expects the link...
View ArticleMacArtney Group to Display Medium Voltage Inline Termination in Warwick, USA
On June 10th 2013, when doors open to the 10th edition of the annual Energy Ocean International Conference in Warwick, Rhode Island – global provider of underwater technology solutions, the MacArtney...
View ArticleGermany: Alstom Grid Opens HQ for Offshore-Project
In the presence of Cornelia Yzer, Senator of Berlin for Economic affairs, Alstom Grid GmbH has opened in the Berlin district of Neukölln an Offshore-Project office to handle all activities connecting...
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