ZTT Delivers Binhai North Offshore Wind Farm Cables
Chinese cable maker ZTT Group has delivered a 220kV submarine composite cable for the 400MW Binhai North Phase 2 offshore wind farm in the Jiangsu province.
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Germany Accepts First Subsidy-Free Offshore Wind Auction Bid Germany’s Bundesnetzagentur has selected three offshore wind projects by DONG Energy and one project by EnBW in the first auction for grid...
View ArticleLower Saxony Calls For More Offshore Wind
Lower Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs, Olaf Lies, has called for an increase in Germany's offshore wind targets following historically low bids in the first auction round in Germany.
View ArticleSiem Wraps Up Boulder Removal Works at Beatrice
Siem Offshore Contractors has completed pre-construction boulder removal works on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland. According to a Notice of Operations, issued...
View ArticleNew Danish Project to Support TenneT’s Power Link Concept
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is leading a new project that will develop methods to optimise the management of electrical connections and pave the way for an integrated energy system across...
View ArticleOMM Secures Wikinger O&M Contract
Spanish energy company Iberdrola has awarded Offshore Marine Management (OMM) with a contract to provide topside and subsea Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services for the 350MW Wikinger offshore...
View ArticleNDE Offshore Starts Inspecting Platform Helideck Substructures off Germany
Offshore service provider NDE Offshore has started annual inspections of the helideck substructures on three HVDC platforms in the German North Sea for Siemens Transmission.
View ArticleTenneT Issues Cable Monitoring Systems Call
Transmission system operator TenneT TSO is looking for a provider of DTS/RTTR cable monitoring systems for subsea and land cables in the Netherlands.
View ArticleFirst UK HVDC Test Centre Open for Business
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has opened a new technology centre in Cumbernauld that will allow the energy industry to simulate real life conditions to test and de-risk the use of...
View ArticleGerman Offshore Wind Farms Shine in Q1 2017
German offshore wind farms generated 4.8 billion kWh of electricity in the first quarter of 2017, a 36.7 percent jump compared to 3.5 billion kWh of electricity generated offshore Germany in the first...
View ArticleTenneT Taps Into CLENS Wind Database
German energy service provider Clean Energy Sourcing (CLENS) has won a contract to provide TenneT with data on current and forecasted generation on wind farms which will help optimise the transmission...
View ArticleBeatrice Completes Concrete Work at Blackhillock
Construction teams have completed concrete pouring at Blackhillock where the onshore substation is being built for the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm project, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Limited...
View ArticleBlock Island Switches to Offshore Wind Power
Block Island is no longer powered by diesel generators after the Block Island Power Company transferred the Island’s electrical system to Deepwater Wind’s 30MW Block Island Wind Farm, the first...
View ArticleElia Seeks Offshore SwitchYard Platform Fabricator
Belgian transmission system operator Elia has invited tenders for the fabrication of the Offshore SwitchYard (OSY) platform for the Modular Offshore Grid (MOG) project in the Belgian North Sea.
View ArticleMassachusetts Utilities Table First Offshore Wind Request for Proposals
The utilities in the State of Massachusetts have issued the first Request for Proposals (RFP) to procure up to 800MW of offshore wind energy generation.
View ArticleDONG Organizes Safari to Celebrate Offshore Wind Milestone
The electricity consumption of DONG Energy's 700,000 residential customers in Denmark is now covered by green power from Danish offshore wind, the energy company said.
View ArticleGerman TSOs Release Updated Offshore Network Expansion Plans
Four German transmission system operators (TSOs) have presented the second version of the Offshore-Network Developement Plan 2030 (Offshore-Netzentwicklungsplan – O-NEP).
View ArticleBibby HydroMap Completes Export Cable Ops at Burbo Bank Extension
Bibby HydroMap has completed the depth of burial operations over the newly installed export cable of DONG Energy's 258MW Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind farm in Liverpool Bay.
View ArticleTekmar Enters Asian Offshore Wind Market through Formosa 1
UK-based Tekmar Energy has supplied its TEKLINK Cable Protection System (CPS) to protect the underwater power cables as they enter the wind turbine foundations on the Formosa 1 Phase 1 project, the...
View ArticleMCT Brattberg Seals Galloper Offshore Substation Deal
Swedish cable systems provider MCT Brattberg has supplied the cable penetration seals for the offshore substation built by Heerema Fabrication Group for the 336MW Galloper wind farm project off Suffolk.
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