UK: Pharos Modifies Its New Subsea Cable Trencher to Improve Performance
Pharos Offshore Group has acquired an SMD built 1200HP cable burial tool. The Universal Trenching Vehicle (UTV 1200) is a unique low and wide Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) specifically designed to...
View ArticleGermany: H&Askham Wins Trianel Offshore Wind Farm Electrical Installation Work
Borkum West II, also known as Trianel Windpark Borkum, set in German waters in the North Sea is the latest project H&Askham are adding to the ever growing portfolio of works it can boast in the...
View ArticleFirst Cable Laid at DanTysk Offshore Wind Farm (Germany)
The next major step has been taken at the DanTysk offshore wind farm – a first cable has been laid between foundations 39 and 40. The sea conditions were perfect for executing this operation for the...
View ArticleGermany: Second Phase of Global Tech I Internal Cabling Starts
The second cable installation phase at the Global Tech I offshore wind farm has started. The first cables have already been laid between the foundations and pulled into them, and now it is time for...
View ArticleUK: Ofgem Selects Preferred Bidder for Gwynt y Môr Connection
Ofgem has appointed the Balfour Beatty Equitix Consortium as the preferred bidder to own and operate the high voltage transmission links to the Gwynt y Môr wind farm. At 576MW it is currently the...
View ArticleUK: Tekmar Turns to Oil and Gas Market
The world’s leading cable protection company for the offshore wind industry, Tekmar Energy, has announced ambitious plans to return to the oil and gas market, whilst maintaining its leading position in...
View ArticleFrance: EDF Seeking Contractor for Trenching Trials
EDF is inviting tenders for the cable trenching trials, as part of the development and the construction of offshore wind farms projects in France, in order to assess the performance of burial methods...
View ArticleItaly: Prysmian Adjusted EBITDA Drops to EUR 282 Million
The Board of Directors of Prysmian S.p.A. has approved the Group’s consolidated results for the first half of 2013. ”The Group’s half-year results show signs of improvement from the second quarter. In...
View ArticleGermany: Blue Offshore to Exhibit at EWEA Offshore 2013
Blue Offshore will be exhibiting at the EWEA Offshore 2013 event in Frankfurt in November. Blue Offshore is a Dutch company founded in early 2010. Its mission is to assist international customers with...
View ArticleUK: Ofgem Plans to Change Transmission Charging Methodology
Ofgem has announced it is minded to approve a change to the methodology for calculating what generators pay to use the electricity transmission network across Britain. It is proposed that the new...
View ArticleRenewableUK Welcomes Ofgem’s Transmission Charges Announcement
RenewableUK has welcomed the publication of Ofgem’s “minded to” position today on future transmission charges. The proposal recognises the important point that renewable generation shares the grid with...
View ArticleUK: Carbon Trust Invites Tenders for Windfarm Engineering R&D Services
Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator programme is inviting tenders for windfarm engineering R&D services. A significant number of UK offshore wind farms have experienced difficulties associated...
View ArticleGermany: DanTysk Offshore Substation Completely Installed
The Offshore Substation (OSS) for the DanTysk offshore wind farm is installed completely. After a construction period of around two years, the DanTysk OSS left the Hollandia Shipyard in Krimpen, The...
View ArticleBlock Island OWF Transmission Cable Will Not Run through Narragansett, USA
Providence-based offshore wind energy developer has withdrawn its application to run a transmission cable through the Town of Narragansett, writes the Providence Journal. Namely, Deepwater Wind planned...
View ArticleGermany: Inter Array Cable Installation Starts at Nordsee Ost OWF
At the beginning of the week, RWE Innogy has started laying the first inter array cable in the construction area of the Nordsee Ost offshore wind farm. By mid-2014, 64 kilometers of cable will have...
View ArticleGermany: Siemens Implements Modular Power Electronics for Feeding Power into...
Together with the Technical University of Dresden and the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, Siemens has carried out research work into a highly efficient and robust medium-voltage...
View ArticleGermany: TenneT Seeks Offshore Cable Maintenance Services
TenneT Offshore GmbH is seeking a contractor who will undertake maintenance of the stored parts and SLA for the repair of the high voltage cable systems alpha ventus (Lot 1) and BorWin1 (Lot2)...
View ArticleGermany: Riffgat Still Not Connected to Network
After the official opening of Riffgat offshore wind farm, the wind turbines are still not feeding green power to German households, since the grid operator TenneT has not connected the wind farm to the...
View ArticleABB Delivers East West Interconnector to EirGrid (Ireland)
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group has delivered the East West Interconnector to EirGrid, the Irish transmission system operator. The 500-megawatt (MW) transmission connection is...
View ArticleVIDEO: East-West Interconnector
The East West Interconnector, the highest capacity link of its kind, officially opened in September of last year. This 500MW transmission connection between UK and Ireland now goes into commercial...
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