CORRECTION NOTE: The article has been updated to say that the tenders to be launched in March will be for offshore grid connections in the Netherlands. Tenders for 2 GW offshore grids in Germany will follow later. TenneT will launch tenders for at least two new offshore grid connections in the Nethe
Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum has issued a tender for subsea works on the cable protection systems (CPS) and bolt exchanges at diffusor plates at the Trianel Windpark Borkum project in Germany. The selected company will be in charge of installing 20 preventive CPS retrofits, four corrective CPS retro
Greece and Italy will be looking to build a new subsea power interconnector with up to 1GW capacity, Greek grid operator IPTO said in its 2022-2031 preliminary development plan. IPTO and its Italian equivalent Terna recently teamed up to prepare studies to strengthen the interconnection of the two e
UK-based Dynamic Load Monitoring (DLM) has manufactured two bespoke monitoring systems that have been installed by dive teams on subsea bend stiffeners at an offshore wind farm. The equipment has been commissioned, with the first round of data due to be collected in March 2021. DLM delivered the bes
JDR is loading out its third batch of cables set for Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. The TFKable Group company is supplying 170 kilometres of 33 kV cables for the 72-turbine offshore wind farm. As part of this latest load-out JDR is spooling to vessel 57.5 kilometres of inter-arr
The COBRAcable interconnector between Dutch and Danish electricity networks is back in operation, Tennet reported on Friday. The 700 MW submarine interconnector was out of operation due to a failure in the cable since the end of September. The repair operation has been successful, enabling the impor
Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has signed a contract with Equinor to build a DC/FO subsea control infrastructure for Northern Lights CO2 transport and storage project. The ASN DC/FO will provide independent high electrical power and fiber connectivity to the subsea CO2 injection wells. Specificall
Eco Wave Power said it has officially started the grid connection works as part of the EWP-EDF One wave energy project in the Port of Jaffa, Israel. The grid connection works take place in two parts, as they include different routes within the port. The first part will see the infrastructure subcont
Equinor and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) have signed a new contract for the roll out of the submarine cable for subsea control infrastructure for Equinor’s Breidablikk field development. Breidablikk is a large oil discovery on the Norwegian Continental Shelf located north-east of the Grane field
The fourth phase of the Cyclades Interconnection project is advancing with cabling tender for Santorini – Naxos power link now up for grabs. It includes the design, supply and installation of a simple installation of underground and underwater cables of 150kV AC circuit, for the interconnection of S
The Orkney-headquartered Leask Marine has completed infrastructure project work at the London Array offshore wind farm in the UK. The work included diver supported cable cleaning and bend stiffener installation. It was carried out by the MV C-Odyssey and crew together with a Leask Marine commercial
Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO), an ADMIE company, has completed the 24-hour test of the electrification of the submarine cable that connects Crete with the Greek mainland system.
The consortium of N-Sea Renewable and Utilities Services (N-Sea RUS) and SeaRenergy has completed an offshore retrofit solution campaign for TenneT. The consortium completed a project to engineer, supply and install a retrofit subsea cable protection system (CPS) for an HVDC grid connection. SeaRene
Subsea robotics specialist Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has partnered with Dutch subsea contractor N-Sea to prove new subsea technology that could change the future of cable construction. Namely, the two companies trialed the new high-frequency electromagnetic cable and pipeline survey system, also k
