Nexans Installs First Beatrice Export Cable
Nexans' cable laying vessel Nexans Skagerrak has completed the laying and burial of the first 70-kilometer 220kV export cable which will connect the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm to the Scottish grid.
View ArticleGreen Giraffe Enters Taiwanese Offshore Wind Venture
Green Giraffe has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Taiwanese organizations for the cooperation on Taiwan's green financial planning and renewable energy development, including better...
View ArticleNew UK-France Interconnection Project Moves Forward
The IFA2 (Interconnexion France-Angleterre) interconnector attained all of the required UK statutory consents, and Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has now issued a comprehensive decision for the...
View ArticleVBMS Picks Niels Winther Shipping for Horns Rev 3
VBMS has contracted Niels Winther Shipping as the preferred supplier of agency services for the 406MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm located in the Danish North Sea.
View ArticleMerkur Substation Topside Loaded Out in Hoboken
An offshore substation topside built by Engie Fabricom-Tractebel and Iemants for the Merkur offshore wind farm has been loaded out at ENGIE Fabricom's yard in Hoboken, Belgium.
View ArticleNKT: Turnkey Approach Leads to Cost Reductions (Expertise Hub VIDEO)
Turnkey solution approach is one of the ways the power cable industry can help the offshore wind industry achieve further cost reductions, Leo van der Pols, Business and Sales Development, NKT, said.
View ArticleNexans Ready to Deploy Boskalis Rockpiper at Beatrice
Nexans, using Boskalis' fallpipe vessel (FPV) Rockpiper, is set to commence the rock emplacement campaign for the installation of the first of two export cables (EC1) in the Beatrice offshore wind farm...
View ArticleNKT Hands Over Nordergründe Link
NKT has commissioned and delivered the 155kV high-voltage AC Nordergründe offshore wind transmission link to the German transmission system operator TenneT.
View ArticleØrsted Wraps Up Hornsea Three Cable Corridor Talks
Ørsted has closed further statutory consultation for the proposed Hornsea Project Three offshore wind farm project.
View ArticleEOWDC Transformer Hits the Road
The 92.6 tonne transformer built for Vattenfall's European Offshore Wind Deployment Center (EOWDC) is currently on its way to the installation site in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
View ArticleFrench Floater Sparks Into Life
The 2MW Floatgen wind turbine, the first offshore and floating wind turbine to be installed off the French coast, has produced its first electricity in the port of Saint-Nazaire while undergoing tests.
View ArticleBeatrice Rocks On
The rock emplacement campaign for the installation of the first of two export cables in the Beatrice offshore wind farm export corridors and construction site started on 25 December, Beatrice Offshore...
View ArticleGermany Confirms Two Additional Offshore Wind Farm Links
The German Federal Network Agency has added two more offshore wind farm connection systems to the revised Offshore Grid Development Plan (O-NEP) 2030.
View ArticleGerman Offshore Wind Farms Breeze Past Annual Generation Record
German offshore wind farms have generated over 17 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity in 2017, according to the data compiled by the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry (Internationales...
View ArticleIberdrola Links Wikinger to German Grid
Iberdrola has connected its 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm to the German power grid.
View ArticleUpdate: EOWDC Transformer Nearing Its Destination
The transformer for Vattenfall's European Offshore Wind Deployment Center (EOWDC), which recently commenced its final part of the journey to the Blackdog substation site in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is...
View ArticleRentel Substation Topside Awaiting Sail-Out
STX France has loaded a substation topside built for the Rentel offshore wind farm onto a barge in the Nantes Saint-Nazaire Port in France.
View ArticleEnergy Solutions Secures Cable Monitoring System Contract
Delft-based high voltage engineering and consultancy company Energy Solutions BV has won a contract to provide the Dutch transmission system operator TenneT with heat monitoring systems for sea and...
View ArticleUpdate: EOWDC Transformer Arrives at Blackdog
The transformer for Vattenfall's European Offshore Wind Deployment Center (EOWDC) arrived at the Blackdog substation site in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 3 January.
View ArticleFloating Wind Joint Industry Project Opens New Tenders
The Carbon Trust-led Floating Wind Joint Industry Project (JIP) has opened tenders for monitoring and inspection, as well as for dynamic export cable development.
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