Siem Offshore Contractors to Deliver Veja Mate’s Inner Array Grid
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore Inc., has been awarded the contract for the turnkey supply and installation package of the inner array grid cable system...
View ArticleBOEM Releases Guidance for U.S. OW Subsea Cable Spacing
A report of a recently completed study of offshore wind submarine cable spacing, commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), is now publicly available. The report, titled...
View ArticleOW Industry to Ministers: North Seas Offshore Grid Is a Building Block for...
Companies in the offshore wind industry have written a letter to the 10 energy ministers of the North Sea region ahead of the informal energy council next week in Luxembourg. The letter, sent last...
View ArticleSiemens Develops Gas-Insulated Transmission Line
Siemens is developing a gas-insulated transmission line for carrying large amounts of energy at high DC voltages. Berlin Technical University and Dresden University of Applied Sciences, among others,...
View ArticleTenneT, Energinet.dk to Reinforce Danish-German Link
German TenneT TSO GmbH and Danish Energinet.dk are working to reinforce the interconnection across the Danish-German border. TenneT has previously approved an upgrade of the existing 220 kV connection...
View ArticleTenneT Seeks AC Subsea Cable Suppliers for DolWin3
TenneT has issued two invitations to tender for the DolWin3 offshore grid connection. The first one is for the manufacture, supply and installation of an AC submarine cable system (including...
View ArticleVIDEO: Cable Laying by Siem Offshore Contractors
Offshore wind turbines are connected to the grid via subsea cables, through which they transmit electricity. In order to protect the cables, they are usually buried in the seabed. An international...
View ArticleBitek to Clear Path for Nordergründe
The European grid operator, TenneT, has awarded a Nordergründe offshore wind farm contract to German-based Bitek Bergungsdienst. Bitek Bergungsdienst will be in charge of surveying a 28-kilometre cable...
View ArticleAlstom Extends Sheringham Shoal Service Contract
Alstom has been awarded a three-year service contract by Statkraft for the substations of the 317 MW Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm, located off the coast of North Norfolk, England. The contract,...
View ArticleJan De Nul Wins Burbo Bank Extension Wires
Jan De Nul Group has secured two contracts with Dong Energy to execute cable installation works for the Burbo Bank Extension Offshore Wind Farm in Liverpool Bay. Jan De Nul Group will install and bury...
View ArticleGermany Halts Farshore Wind Energy Projects
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency BSH has halted licensing procedures for offshore wind projects until further notice. The decision covers projects that are over 100 kilometres...
View ArticleKentish Flats Extension Cabling Starts in May
Kentish Flats Extension export and array cables will commence load out onto two vessels in Nordenham in Germany on 1 May. The vessels BoDo Installer and Nostag 10 will transport the cables to the...
View ArticleTenneT Takes Over SylWin1 Offshore Grid Connection
Siemens has handed over SylWin1, the third North Sea grid connection this year, to its customer TenneT. The German-Dutch transmission grid operator has now put the world’s most powerful grid connection...
View ArticlePrysmian Commissions SylWin1
Following news that Siemens handed over the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore grid connection SylWin1 to TenneT yesterday, Prysmian Group announced that it has successfully commissioned the...
View ArticleTriton Knoll Applies for Electrical System DCO
Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm has submitted an application for a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the Triton Knoll Electrical System on 24 April 2015. “The application and associated documents...
View ArticleWork Starts on Westermeerwind’s Connection to Land
The construction of the first electricity cable between the Westermeerwind offshore wind farm and the high voltage station being built within the dike in Espel began on May 1st. A total of six cables...
View ArticleOffshore Wind Expects Record Year
Offshore wind industry can expect to install a record capacity of 4.2 GW in 2015, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance report. These predictions follow last year’s delays which prolonged some...
View Article50Hertz Advances with Ostwind 1 Cable Project
50Hertz has reached another important milestone in the approval procedure for the Ostwind 1 offshore cable project. The public hearing for the submarine cable route in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)...
View ArticleJames Fisher Supports Balfour Beatty’s UK OFTO Assets
James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS), part of James Fisher and Sons plc, announces the signing of a strategic agreement with Balfour Beatty to become the exclusive integrated marine service provider for...
View ArticleWaveWalker 1 Drills for Gemini Cables
The jack-up barge WaveWalker 1 has been deployed to work on Gemini wind energy project offshore Eemshaven. To be able to run the Gemini offshore wind farm two export cables have to be run under two...
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