Tideway and Turbine Transfers Prepping CTV Quartet for Merkur Offshore Wind Farm
Wales-based Turbine Transfers has won a contract to provide Tideway B.V., part of DEME Group, with four crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the Merkur offshore wind farm project in the German North Sea.
View ArticleTenneT’s North Sea Wind Harvest Up by 50%
Transmission system operator TenneT transferred 7.77 terawatt hours (TWh) of energy from offshore wind farms in the North Sea to the mainland grid in the first half of 2017, a 50% jump compared to 5.18...
View ArticleJD-Contractor Nabs Nissum Bredning Cable Job
JD-Contractor, a danish subsea specialist, has won the contract for the cabling of the 28MW Nissum Bredning test and development wind farm off Denmark where Siemens Gamesa plans to utilise a range of...
View ArticleMaersk Connector Loads First Nemo Link Cables
DeepOcean’s Maersk Connector has completed loading of the first phase on the Nemo Link cables in the port of Blyth.
View ArticleTenneT and HSM Sign Borssele Beta Contract, Cut First Steel for Borssele Alpha
Dutch transmission system operator TenneT TSO B.V. and the Schiedam-based HSM Offshore have cut the first steel for the Borssele Alpha offshore transformer station and have signed a contract for the...
View ArticleWalney Extension Produces First Power
Electricity has been generated for the first time at DONG Energy's Walney Extension offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Cumbria, UK.
View ArticleViking Link Developers Seek UXO Hunters
Energinet.dk and National Grid Viking Link Ltd. have invited tenders for unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey, inspection and removal services along the route of the Viking Link HVDC interconnectore...
View ArticleRace Bank Inter-Array Cables Laid, Burial Soon to Be Completed
All inter-array cables have been laid at the Race Bank offshore wind farm and the works on burial will be completed in the near future, DONG Energy, the owner and developer of the 573MW project off...
View ArticleDNV GL Opens First CHIL Test Facility for Renewable Energy Systems
DNV GL has opened the first control hardware in loop (CHIL) test facility for renewable energy generation plants.
View ArticleNorth Sea Wind Power Hub Consortium Adds Gas and Storage to the Mix
Dutch energy infrastructure company Gasunie has joined a consortium of TenneT Netherlands, TenneT Germany and Denmark's Energinet formed to develop the North Sea Wind Power Hub.
View ArticleFirst Hornsea One OSS Topside Gets a Helideck
Bladt Industries has installed a helideck on the first out of the three substation topsides currently under construction for DONG Energy's 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK.
View ArticleNemo Link Cable Makes Landfall in UK
Nemo Link, the joint venture between Belgium's Elia and National Grid UK that will operate the first electricity interconnection between Belgium and the UK, has started laying the first 59km of double...
View ArticleNDE Completes Inspections on Four Siemens HVDC Platforms
NDE Offshore has completed the structural and subsea inspections on Siemens HVDC platforms in Germany, owned by TenneT.
View ArticleNordergründe Offshore Substation Leaves Bremerhaven
An offshore substation built for the 111MW Nordergründe offshore wind farm has been loaded onto a barge in Bremerhaven and is en route to the installation site in the German North Sea.
View ArticleSCiBreak Joins PROMOTioN Offshore Grid Project
Swedish company SCiBreak has joined the PROMOTioN consortium, which aims to develop and demonstrate diode rectifier offshore converters, HVDC grid protection system, and HVDC circuit breaker...
View ArticleTriton Knoll to Be Built Without Intermediate Electrical Compound
The Intermediate Electrical Compound (IEC), originally planned for construction near Orby, Lincolnshire, with a footprint of around 1.8 hectares, will not be built for the Triton Knoll offshore wind...
View ArticleNordergründe to Come Online Soon, Offshore Substation In Place
The offshore substation for the Nordergründe offshore wind farm has been installed and the project can now move to final commissioning, after being delayed due to the insolvency proceedings of the...
View ArticleTenneT Selects UXO Consultants
German transmission system operator TenneT has awarded UK companies RPS Energy Limited and Ordtek Limited with contracts to provide consultancy and QA/QC services for unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey...
View ArticleVBMS Secures EUR 80 Million Triton Knoll Deal
VBMS has signed an EUR 80 million Preferred Supplier and Early Works Agreement for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm. The Boskalis subsidiary, together with NKT Cables, is in charge of the supply and...
View ArticleVattenfall Seeks Vesterhav Nord & Syd Onshore Grid Contractors
Vattenfall has invited companies to pre-qualify for the tender call for the supply and installation of the Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd onshore grid. Following the selection phase, the developer is...
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