Advanced Global Energy and Dynamo Electrical have formed a new engineering company Inter Array Engineering. Inter Array Engineering will offer a OWF package for clients with services including all of the following, MV/HV/EHV termination and testing, fibre optic services, wind farm management, wind f
Canyon Offshore Ltd, the robotics subsidiary of Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc., has been awarded a multi-million pound project with VBMS Ltd on the Statoil, Masdar and Stakraft Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm for the supply of its services to provide the trenching solution for inter array cables. As p
Fugro has been awarded a contract for the installation and burial of array cables at the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. The development in the English Channel, 13 kilometres off the Sussex coast, is being built by E.ON alongside partners, the UK Green Investment Bank plc. The engineering and planning w
TenneT, the Dutch electricity transmission system operator, has mapped the export cable route for the Borssele offshore wind farm zone. The cable will come ashore at Borssele, less than a kilometre from TenneT’s existing 380 kV substation. “This is the outcome of an intensive process, in which all i
Energinet.dk, the Danish transmission system operator, has decided to postpone Anholt offshore wind farm cable repair. The operation was scheduled for the late September. However, due to an error in NKT’s replacement cables, the work had to be pushed back. A new date will be announced promptly. “The
Van Oord has installed the two Offshore High Voltage Stations (OHVS) and first 77 transition pieces at the Dutch Gemini Wind Park. The realisation of the large offshore wind project construction is proceeding as planned. The OHVS installations were built in Hoboken, Belgium, and transported to Eemsh
“Fukushima Shimpuu”, the largest floating offshore wind turbine in the world, left Onahama port on July 28th and arrived at the testing area the next morning. “Fukushima Shimpuu” has a 7MW output capacity, which is 3.5 times the capacity of the 2MW “Fukushima Mirai”, which started operation in the f
The first two Vos Prodect’s monopile entry systems (Pro-MES) have been installed by Van Oord, at Gemini offshore wind farm project by the end of week 32. Pull-in of both first end and second end of the cable were completed on schedule and without any problems. Pro-MES systems have been tailored to t
The first two Vos Prodect’s monopile entry systems (Pro-MES) have been installed by Van Oord, at Gemini offshore wind farm project by the end of week 32. Pull-in of both first end and second end of the cable were completed on schedule and without any problems. Pro-MES systems have been tailored to t
VBMS has been awarded a contract by E.ON for the installation of two 16 kilometre-long export cables for the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm. The 150kV HVAC cables will transport the power ashore from the 400 MW wind farm to the onshore cable in Brooklands Pleasure Park in Worthing, South East England. V
By granting West of Duddon Sands (WoDS) Transmission plc a licence to own and operate the £269 million transmission link to the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm, the total new transmission investment delivered by the OFTO regime to date is over £2.5 billion, of which nearly £1 billion has now
West of Duddon Sands, a joint venture owned by DONG Energy and ScottishPower Renewables, has signed an agreement for the sale of transmission assets to WoDS Transmission plc. WoDS Transmission plc is owned by a consortium comprising of Macquarie Corporate Holdings Pty Limited and 3i Infrastructure p
Work to install the Tekmar Energy’s TekLink cable protection system (CPS) has started on what is poised to be one of the world’s largest offshore wind parks, the Gemini project in the Dutch North Sea. The contract with the Dutch maritime contractor Van Oord involves implementing Tekmar’s 6th generat
50Hertz has received an approval for its Ostwind 1 offshore cable project within the EEZ from Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany (BSH). “We are greatly pleased with the permit for this last 20 kilometre section in the EEZ. This means that the entire cable route is now approved,” sai
