Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has issued a tender for electrical consultancy services for the export transmission systems and cable array systems for future offshore wind projects. The services will be delivered for various projects which are at different stages of development, for future
Chinese power cable specialist Orient Cable is about to send off the submarine cables for phase one of the Binh Dai offshore wind project in Vietnam. The company loaded the cables onto the installation barge at Ningbo Orient Cable’s port, which is ready to sail towards the Binh Dai Province in Vietn
TenneT has issued a periodic indicative notice to carry out the market investigation on the planned procurement of the BorWin6 HVDC cable system. All potential and interested market participants are invited to express their interest in the market investigation and to provide an overview of the curre
The first cable section for the Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection was installed in the German part of the Baltic Sea in recent weeks, the transmission system operator 50Hertz said. In the coming months, further cables will be laid in individual sections along the 90-kilometre-long route. The work i
Just one month after the repair, the 1GW BritNed electricity interconnector between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands is out again. According to BritNed, the new unplanned outage took place on 9 March 2021. To remind, the interconnector also went out of service in December last year due to a ca
EDS HV, part of James Fisher and Sons, has secured a cable termination and testing contract for the Triton Knoll offshore wind project in the UK. The scope includes the installation and termination of high voltage cables between the foundations and the turbine switchgear, with pre-testing, mock-up t
London-based Intertek has delivered a permit feasibility study for Xlinks’ subsea cable system between the UK and Morocco. UK-based Xlinks is developing the world’s longest 3.6 GW subsea power link between the UK and Morocco, which will transit through the territorial waters of France, Spain and Por
Chinese company SB Submarine Systems (SBSS) has recently completed cable loading onboard its vessel Bold Maverick in Changshu, China. The 2001-built ship is now en route to the Philippines to perform cable installation works. This work will continue with a passage to the Mediterranean Sea where the
Subsea power interconnection project between the island of Crete and mainland Greece (Attica region) has secured a €200 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). IPTO’s Ariadne Interconnection signed the new loan deal, which comes with an option of extending the funding by additional €10
Cenergy Holdings subsidiary Hellenic Cables has won a contract from Denmark’s transmission system operator Energinet for the KBH02 ‘København02’ project. The deal will see the complete supply of a 145 kV cable system connecting Amager Power Plant to Svanemølle substation in Denmark. Hellenic Cables
Newbuild cable layer Nexans Aurora is getting prepped to enter service with the next generation in boat-handling systems from the Bergen-based Vestdavit. Now in the final stages of construction at Norwegian shipyard Ulstein Verft, by design, the Nexans Aurora can work in harsh-environment conditions
Cyprus, Israel and Greece on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in relation to the EuroAsia Interconnector project. The EuroAsia Interconnector is a multi-terminal VSC-HVDC scheme which will connect Israel, Cyprus and Greece (Crete), and will comprise converter stations with
UK-based First Subsea has designed and delivered cable protection system for Mantoudi Skiathos Interconnection project. The Interconnection of Skiathos includes the installation of submarine and underground cables in Evia and Skiathos and the construction of a substation. In January last year, Greek
Preparation works for the export cable installation for the Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind project are expected to commence in mid-March. The area where the activities will take place is the nearshore extent of the wind farm’s export cable corridor. Two jack-up vessels, Capall Mara and C57 Red Squir
