50Hertz has completed UXO clearance at the Ostwind 2 grid connection project in the German Baltic Sea. The project comprised unexploded ordnance recovery at the subsea cable routes that will connect the Arcadis Ost 1 and Baltic Eagle offshore wind farms to the German high voltage grid. Activities w
EDS HV Group has completed substation maintenance work at the Rhyl Flats offshore wind farm located off the coast of North Wales. Maintenance work was done for every electrical asset, including 132kV open mesh switches, power transformers, auxiliary transformers, battery systems, shunt reactors and
NKT is increasing its capacity to transport and store offshore power cables from its factory in Cologne, Germany. The demand for offshore power cables is expected to grow in the years to come as offshore wind continues to be essential for the global transition to renewable energy, the cable maker sa
Ailes Marines has selected GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions to provide the main electrical equipment for the Saint-Brieuc Bay offshore wind farm’s substation. GE’s Grid Solutions will be in charge of the design, manufacturing, installation, and commissioning of the high-voltage electrical equipm
Codling Wind Park Ltd has issued a contract notice for an offshore geotechnical survey across the Codling wind farm and the export cable route off the east coast of Ireland. The survey will include geotechnical boreholes with samplings and in-situ testings, seabed CPTs, seismic seabed CPTs, grab sam
Great Britain’s National Grid ESO has selected DNV GL as the lead partner in the Offshore Coordination Project, which will advise and shape the future national strategy for offshore grid development. The aim of the project is to review and recommend ways to improve how offshore wind farms are connec
Longitude, part of LOC Group, has completed a range of environmental engineering analyses for the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind project to support the planning for the export cable installation operations. Under the contract with Prysmian, the work included analysis of vessel grounding and mooring in
The third and final offshore transformer module (OTM) has been installed at the Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland. The wind farm’s first OTM was installed on 10 August, and the second unit followed shortly. Siemens Energy secured the contract to connect the wind farm to the grid in 2018. The co
Chinese power cable specialist Orient Cable has secured its first engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract for an offshore wind project in Vietnam. Orient Cable has been contracted to provide and install a 185-kilometre, 35 kV subsea cable system for the Binh Dai offs
Perth civil engineering company I & H Brown has secured a contract to construct the onshore substation for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in Scotland. I & H Brown said it is undertaking all the civil elements of the substation to enable the site, including five portal frame buildings
Dutch-German offshore grid operator TenneT is seeking underwater survey services for its offshore platforms. TenneT manages the operations of the German and Dutch high voltage cable connections from land to the offshore wind farms, the so-called grid connection systems. The contract covers the under
Transmission system operator TenneT has issued a contract notice for geophysical and geotechnical surveys of its existing and future offshore power cable routes. The contract covers the existing power cable routes off the Netherlands and Germany, as well as the future cable routes within German wate
Belgian transmission system operator Elia has issued a tender seeking transport services between Ostend and offshore platforms in the North Sea. The tender is divided into two lots. Lot 1 covers provision of crew transfer services by a helicopter, including light luggage, between an onshore heliport
The NordLink interconnector has transmitted the first power between Norway and Germany. According to Nexans, the system is under testing and electricity with a capacity of 70 MW was transferred between the two countries last week. NordLink is the world’s first interconnection that will enable two co
