CWind, part of the Global Marine Group, has completed its inter-array cable pull-in and termination and testing campaign at the Kriegers Flak offshore wind project in Denmark. CWind used walk-to-work vessels Island Diligence and Island Crown to conduct 72 inter-array cable pull-ins and termination a
All inter-array cables have been laid at the Moray East offshore wind farm, with burial, termination and testing works still ongoing. The cables were installed by CLV Living Stone, while the Ndeavour and Grand Canyon vessels have been deployed for the burial operations. OSV Siem Day is supporting te
Prysmian Group and RWE Renewables have finalised the contract for the export cable connection of the 1.4 GW Sofia offshore wind farm, worth more than € 200 million. The contract, which follows the preferred bidder agreement from November 2020, includes the development of the turn-key high voltage su
Bureau Veritas (BV) and Nexans have signed a partnership agreement to reduce risk and promote best practices for turnkey deliveries of high voltage power cables used for connecting offshore wind farms to onshore grids. With insurers’ studies confirming that high voltage power cables are among the mo
Dutch survey contractor Fugro has been selected by Terna, the owner of the Italian national transmission grid, to perform a large multidisciplinary survey for one part of the Tyrrhenian Link interconnector.
Orient Cable has won a contract to provide dynamic cable for an offshore wind project in China which will connect a floating wind turbine to a fixed unit. Ningbo Orient (NBO) plans to use one 35 kV dynamic cable to connect the 5.5 MW floating wind turbine to the fixed-bottom turbine. The plan is to
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has signed a 10-year loan agreement with Danish national transmission system operator Energinet to co-finance the construction of the Viking Link interconnector between the UK and Denmark.
Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has issued a tender for electrical consultancy services for the export transmission systems and cable array systems for future offshore wind projects. The services will be delivered for various projects which are at different stages of development, for future
Chinese power cable specialist Orient Cable is about to send off the submarine cables for phase one of the Binh Dai offshore wind project in Vietnam. The company loaded the cables onto the installation barge at Ningbo Orient Cable’s port, which is ready to sail towards the Binh Dai Province in Vietn
TenneT has issued a periodic indicative notice to carry out the market investigation on the planned procurement of the BorWin6 HVDC cable system. All potential and interested market participants are invited to express their interest in the market investigation and to provide an overview of the curre
The first cable section for the Ostwind 2 offshore grid connection was installed in the German part of the Baltic Sea in recent weeks, the transmission system operator 50Hertz said. In the coming months, further cables will be laid in individual sections along the 90-kilometre-long route. The work i
Just one month after the repair, the 1GW BritNed electricity interconnector between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands is out again. According to BritNed, the new unplanned outage took place on 9 March 2021. To remind, the interconnector also went out of service in December last year due to a ca
EDS HV, part of James Fisher and Sons, has secured a cable termination and testing contract for the Triton Knoll offshore wind project in the UK. The scope includes the installation and termination of high voltage cables between the foundations and the turbine switchgear, with pre-testing, mock-up t
London-based Intertek has delivered a permit feasibility study for Xlinks’ subsea cable system between the UK and Morocco. UK-based Xlinks is developing the world’s longest 3.6 GW subsea power link between the UK and Morocco, which will transit through the territorial waters of France, Spain and Por
