The Dutch company, N-Sea Group, has been awarded a contract to repair one of the four export cables that connect the 576 MW Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm in the UK to the National Grid. N-Sea will be responsible for replacing a five-kilometer section of 132 kV export cable from the onshore transiti
Nexans has secured a contract with government-owned Interconnect Malta (ICM) to deliver the second Malta-Sicily interconnector, a new 225 MW high-voltage alternating current (HVAC) link that will reinforce Malta’s electricity system and ensure a stable and resilient energy supply. Under the contract
Denmark-headquartered power cable manufacturer and installation company NKT has signed an agreement with Norway’s aluminium and renewable energy company Hydro for the supply of low-carbon aluminium wire rod through to 2033. The two firms have been partners for over 40 years. According to NKT, the ag
The consortium of Sumitomo Electric Industries and Siemens Energy has completed the trial operations and handover of the Greenlink interconnector linking the electricity grids of Ireland and Great Britain to its client, Greenlink Interconnector Limited, for operational and commercial use. The 500 MW
The Dutch company Van Oord has introduced a new trencher, Jet-It, to its subsea cable burial fleet. The unit has completed testing in the North Sea and is now ready for deployment. Jet-It joins the company’s two existing trenchers, Dig-It and Deep Dig-It, which use both mechanical cutting and jettin
Siemens Energy has completed the piling works for the new converter station on the German side of what will be the first direct energy link between the UK and Germany. With converter stations on the Isle of Grain in Kent and Wilhelmshaven in northern Germany, the 725-kilometer NeuConnect interconnec
Prysmian’s new cable laying vessel (CLV) Monna Lisa has been loaded for the first time with submarine cable, destined for what will become the largest U.S. offshore wind farm once operational. Prysmian reported two days ago that submarine cable for Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (C
Nexans has been tasked to carry out subsea cable repair on the electricity transmission link between Finland and Estonia that was damaged at the end of December 2024, with the activities set to begin in May and the link expected to start operating again in July. To remind, Finnish transmission syste
Keyfield International, a Malaysian provider of offshore accommodation vessels to the oil & gas industry, is making its way into the cable laying business with the acquisition of a 98-meter-long cable laying barge. Keyfield Ventures (Labuan) Limited (KVL), a newly incorporated 100%-owned subsidiary
Offshore marine survey operations are scheduled to begin soon at what would be the UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway, connecting Scotland and England. Ireland-based XOCEAN is in charge of carrying out the marine survey works for the Eastern Green Link 5 (EGL5) project using seven remotely o
The Offshore TSO Collaboration (OTC), an initiative established in 2022 that gathers transmission system operators (TSOs) from the European Northern Seas, says that a unified and efficient offshore grid development strategy is needed for the North Sea to maximize benefits for Europe’s energy securit
Lithuania, Latvia and Germany are planning to jointly develop a hybrid offshore electricity interconnector between the two Baltic States and Germany, which would be 600 kilometers long and with a capacity of 2 GW. Lithuanian transmission system operator (TSO) Litgrid and its Latvian and German count
Chinese power cable manufacturer Orient Cable has been awarded two new export cable contracts in its home country, one of which involves the supply of a 500 kV line for what the company says is the longest offshore distance in China’s offshore wind so far. On April 14, Orient Cable (NBO) said that,
Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group has awarded compatriot Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) with a contract for potential unexploded ordnance (pUXO) identification and clearance along the route of NeuConnect, a high-voltage submarine cable that will create the first direct energy transmission link betwe
