Proposed Inchcape offshore wind farm faced discussion between the companies, engaged in project development, and the public, especially landowners and farmers in Angus area. A week ago, cable connecting to the grid worried local residents. However, according to the latest developments it appears tha
As Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, the German government might acquire stake in a new grid operator, planned to bring offshore wind power to shore. The government could realize its plans through KfW Group state development bank. This news comes after grid operator TenneT announced delay in
CTC Marine Projects, Ltd, part of DeepOcean Group Holding AS, has announced its multi-million pound contract award for Dolwin 1, Germany. The workscope, for client EMAS AMC, will include the trenching of 62.34 kilometres of a bundled HVDC power cable from 14 metres water depth and trenching of a pow
At Easter Sunday two separate decks of TenneT’s 80 metres high offshore converter platform were successfully mounted on each other in the yard of Heerema Factory Group in Zwijndrecht. The platform of Dolwin1 is currently being built by Heerema Factory Group, subcontractor of TenneT’s main contractor
Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, has won a contract worth more than 50 million Euro to supply a total of 57 km of high-voltage subsea power export cables to Northwind NV in the North Sea. The project comprises 14 km of cable to connect Belwind Phase 2 to the Northwind wind farm [&he
Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, has won a contract worth more than 50 million Euro to supply a total of 57 km of high-voltage subsea power export cables to Northwind NV in the North Sea. The project comprises 14 km of cable to connect Belwind Phase 2 to the Northwind wind farm [&he
The latest move of Triton Knoll wind farm developer, RWE npower renewables, to carry out “non-intrusive ecological surveys” has raised concerns, Lincolnshire reports. In January, the company changed their initial plans for connecting a 1,2 GW wind farm to the grid trough a 50 mile network of pylons
Bootle-based commercial diving and engineering specialist, Hughes Sub Surface Engineering, announced the successful completion of their latest project assisting the main contractor successfully complete the shore landing of the export cable from the London Array Wind Farm presently under constructio
Centrica Renewables Energy Ltd has contracted Global Marine Energy Ltd., the largest independent provider of subsea power cable installation, maintenance and related engineering services worldwide, to provide the cable landing works related to the west export nearshore cable at the Lincs Offshore wi
Statnett and National Grid are jointly developing a project to construct a High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) electrical interconnector between Norway and Great Britain. MMT will be performing the route survey for this project between Hylen, Norway and Blyth, UK. The survey will be performed April –
Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (“SOC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Siem Offshore Inc., announced today that SOC has been awarded the contract for the installation of the inner array grid cables as well as associated services for the Amrumbank West Offshore Wind Farm (“OWF”) project by Amrumbank We
At today’s press conference held in Frankfurt chief executive officer of KfW, German development lender, Ulrich Schroeder, stated that KfW is considering the manners in which the production of renewable energy in Germany could be expanded, reported Bloomberg. He stated that there is a „room for mano
At today’s press conference held in Frankfurt chief executive officer of KfW, German development lender, Ulrich Schroeder, stated that KfW is considering the manners in which the production of renewable energy in Germany could be expanded, reported Bloomberg. He stated that there is a „room for mano
Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission Limited (SHETL), the licensed transmission owner in the north of Scotland, is planning to develop a 109 km subsea electricity cable between Caithness and Moray to transmit the large volume of existing and planned electricity from renewable sources in the north of
