The repairs on the cable linking the 309 MW Rentel offshore wind farm to mainland Belgium have been completed about four months after it failed. The fault was located just below the Rentel transformer platform, said the Belgian transmission system operator (TSO) Elia. A new section of the cable, app
An Estonian shipbuilding company has carried out the conversion of a general cargo vessel into a fully equipped cable recovery vessel at its premises in Tallinn. BLRT Repair Yards manufactured and installed five cable tanks in the cargo hold, each 8,200 mm high and 10,200 mm wide, weighing a total o
Subsea cables are expected to remain at the heart of further energy transition moves, according to JDR Cable Systems.
A HVDC project, bringing more green electricity to Britain from offshore wind farms, is set to enter the construction phase in winter 2024.
Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI) has inked a second multi-million-pound contract with THREE60 Energy for its new power cable factory in Nigg, Scotland.
A number of companies from the industry have joined forces in a project to investigate the effects of subsea electricity cables on marine wildlife, expected to contribute to developing environmentally friendly power cable systems. The FlatEMF project, being undertaken by 50Hertz, EirGrid, Europacabl
InterConnect Malta, owned by the Maltese government, has issued a prior information notice (PIN) for the tender for the manufacture and installation of the submarine cable for the second electrical interconnector between Malta and Italy. The contracting authority plans to issue a tender for the deta
A U.S. state fund has expressed its interest in investing in an interconnection project that will link the electricity grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel. The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has submitted a letter of intent (LoI) to Greece’s transmission system operator (TSO
Iberdrola has contracted Van Oord for the installation of wind turbine foundations and the supply and installation of inter-array cables for the Windanker offshore wind farm that the Spanish renewable energy company is building in the German sector of the Baltic Sea. Under the contract, the Dutch of
Following a pause due to poor weather and vessel maintenance, offshore cable operations have resumed at the Greenlink interconnector that will link Ireland and Wales. Cable burial and trenching activities are ongoing along the interconnector route by the 127-meter-long DP2 offshore support vessel Gr
Greece’s Asso.subsea has joined forces with French cable maker Nexans to perform subsea burial operations for what will become Ireland’s first power connection with continental Europe. The Celtic Interconnector spans 575 kilometers, constituting a high voltage direct current (HVDC) connection across
The main construction phase of the first-ever energy link between the UK and Germany has commenced on the German side of the project, ten months after work had begun in the UK. More than 80 guests from politics, business and authorities celebrated the official groundbreaking today, May 21, at the co
The first of two export cables for TenneT’s Hollandse Kust (west Beta) offshore grid connection has been pulled underneath the dunes at Velsen, the Netherlands. In the coming days, the consortium between Boskalis and Orient Cable will bury this 220 kV AC cable into the seabed. Boskalis’ cable-laying
Italian cabling giant Prysmian has established a long-term partnership with Port of Middlesbrough, its northern European marine base, as part of its growth plans, expected to create new jobs in the region. Prysmian, which has been a tenant at Port of Middlesbrough for several years, has signed a ten
