DNV and South Korean LS Cable & System have signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to target emerging subsea cabling opportunities in the offshore wind industry. DNV and LS Cable & System will cooperate in identifying and reducing risk early in the cable manufacturing process, impr
Britain’s energy regulators are putting billions of pounds of green infrastructure investment at risk by overseeing an energy market which favours EU energy imports at the expense of home-grown schemes, new research has shown. Electricity generators in the UK pay transmission charges for the cost of
The French transmission system operator Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE) has awarded James Fisher Renewables with a contract for unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey along the export cable routes for the Fécamp offshore wind farm. Under the contract, the company’s subsidiary Mojo Maritime France
Dutch cable logistics company WIND has opened a new cable storage facility in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. The new facility is situated at the Sealane terminal in the Emmahaven, and provides open-air and warehouse storage space. According to WIND, the Eemshaven facility will be an extension of its ca
SB Submarine Systems’ (SBSS) cable installation barge Fu Yong 6 has completed the installation of the export cable at the Changle Area C offshore wind site in China. Fu Yong 6 carried out the installation of 38.9 kilometers of cable with burial of three meters at the site located off the coast of th
Jan De Nul has repaired TenneT’s AC108 cable connecting the Trianel Borkum offshore substation with Tennet’s DolWin alpha converter station in the German North Sea. The repair job is part of the Service Level Agreement for cable repairs that Jan De Nul and TenneT entered into in 2019. TenneT engaged
NKT has reported a revenue of €296 million in the first quarter of 2021, a 21% organic growth from the €240 million in the same quarter of 2020, with positive growth from all of the company’s three business lines. Operational EBITDA increased for all the business lines and almost tripled from €10.2
Partners Group has become a 100% shareholder in the Greenlink electricity interconnector between Ireland and Great Britain. Partners Group has acquired a 51% stake in Greenlink from Element Power, meaning that it now entirely owns the interconnector on behalf of its clients. Greenlink will use a sub
Sumitomo Electric Industries has won a contract to supply new 132 kV offshore export cable for the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind project in the UK. The contract award comes a few months after Ofgem ruled in favor of Gwynt y Môr OFTO plc which had filed an Exceptional Event claim for the project’s export
Boskalis has reported a 10 per cent increase in the order book of its Offshore Energy division in the first quarter of the year (compared to the end of 2020), with around 50 per cent of new orders coming from the offshore wind sector. The first quarter at the company’s Offshore Energy division proce
Anbaric Development Partners has concluded the second set of oceanographic survey activities for its Boardwalk Power Link (BPL) project which will connect offshore wind energy to New Jersey’s onshore grid. Led by ESS Group in concert with Ocean Surveys, the two sets of surveys looked specifically at
NKT is investing more than €150 million in the expansion of its high-voltage power cable production sites and logistics to execute on a record high order backlog. The investment program will see a new high-voltage power cable test center in Cologne, Germany, and the construction of a new extrusion t
Helix Robotics Solutions has completed its second trenching campaign of the inter-array cables at the Moray East offshore wind project in Scotland. The work was carried out by construction support vessel Grand Canyon III at the project site located some 22 kilometers off the Aberdeenshire coast. All
Rotech Subsea has completed cable de-burial and post-lay trenching works at an undisclosed offshore wind farm in the British part of the North Sea. Rotech carried out the work on multiple sections of the wind farm. The company did not reveal the name of the client but did state that it is an offshor
