Seabed preparation activities are scheduled to begin at the Inch Cape offshore wind farm site in Scotland at the end of March. N-Sea, which has been contracted for the job, will start the work within the array site and the export cable corridor on or around March 30 and continue until November 2025.
Hellenic Cables, in a consortium with Asso.subsea, has been awarded a turnkey contract by the French transmission system operator (TSO) Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) for the Dunkirk offshore wind farm. Hellenic Cables will design, manufacture, and supply 32 kilometers of submarine cables f
Bluestream Offshore, a subsidiary of OEG Energy, has been awarded a contract by transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT for the retrofit installation of a corrosion protection system on the SylWin alpha offshore converter station for the SylWin1 offshore grid connection in Germany. The award is fo
Denmark-headquartered power cable manufacturer and installation company NKT has launched an integrated monitoring platform to safeguard offshore and onshore cables and support their continuous operation by identifying and mitigating potential threats, including fishing accidents and deliberate damag
UK-headquartered Enshore Subsea has secured an export cable installation contract for one of Scotland’s largest offshore wind projects, the 1.1 GW Inch Cape. The Inch Cape offshore wind farm will feature two 85-kilometer, 220 kV, three-phase export cables, each delivered in three sections and requir
The National Grid has awarded contracts to ten suppliers as part of a £59 billion high voltage direct current (HVDC) supply chain framework, setting the stage for the delivery of the required works and equipment for key energy projects across the UK. The HVDC supply chain framework was launched in 2
After South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution, a consortium of Hellenic Cables and Jan De Nul has signed a framework agreement with National Grid becoming the appointed contractors eligible to participate in future HVDC cable projects across the UK and Europe. The agreement enables the consortium to pa
South Korean Taihan Cable & Solution has signed a framework agreement with UK power transmission and distribution company National Grid UK for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable systems, securing participation opportunities in projects valued at approximately £21.3 billion over up to eight yea
Denmark-headquartered power cable manufacturer and installation company NKT has achieved one of the final milestones for Greece’s Attica-Crete power cable project with the completion of the site acceptance test. Described as the largest electricity transmission project in Greece, with a budget excee
Helix Robotics Solutions, the robotics division of U.S.-headquartered offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions Group, has secured a contract with Italian cable systems giant Prysmian for its T1400-2 trencher. The contract will see the trencher perform post-installation cable burial o
European Energy and TotalEnergies have started seabed surveys in the area surrounding the planned Jammerland Bugt offshore wind farm, located between Kerteminde on Funen and Kalundborg on Zealand, Denmark. The two companies launched three vessels to carry out seabed measurements, which will provide
The Netherlands-based shipbuilder and designer Neptune Marine has commenced construction of a new cable maintenance vessel. The vessel named Altera will be 100 meters long and will be used for offshore cable maintenance work and offshore support services. According to Neptune Marine, it will be capa
EnBW is laying the first submarine cable of the internal wind farm cabling that connects all 64 Vestas V236-15.0 MW turbines of the 960 MW He Dreiht offshore wind farm. Seaway7 has been commissioned with the task. In 2022, EnBW awarded the company an engineering, procurement, installation, and commi
Italy could install up to 1 GW of offshore solar capacity in the next five years, enough to supply electricity to around half a million households annually, according to estimates of a new position paper by the Italian Association of Offshore Renewable Energy (AERO). Unveiled by SolarinBlue, the rep
