A joint venture (JV) between Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT and Taiwanese cable company Walsin Lihwa has inaugurated Taiwan’s first offshore power cable factory. Operated by the JV Walsin Energy Cable System (WECS), the factory was inaugurated on Saturday, December 6, in K
Installation of scour protection on wind turbine foundation locations at the Hornsea Three offshore site in the UK is set to commence in mid-December. The work will be undertaken by DEME using its rock installation vessel Flintstone, equipped with a fallpipe and flexible bucket system. The vessel is
Scottish transmission system operator (TSO) SSEN Transmission has collected all permissions needed for a high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable link between Sinclair’s Bay in Caithness and Rattray Head near Peterhead, thanks to a marine license for the subsea electricity transmission projec
A project, which is described as the world’s largest tidal stream energy development, has put subsea activities on the agenda for December 2025 in Scotland’s Pentland Firth.
Danish power cable manufacturer and installation firm NKT has embarked on a mission to expand production capacity at its cable accessories site in Nordenham, Germany, to meet the continued high demand for medium-voltage power cable accessories in Europe.
Ørsted has completed the 2025 foundation installation campaign at the Sunrise Wind offshore project site in the U.S. and is now commencing cable installation works on both its projects under construction in the Northeast U.S., Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind. According to the latest Notice to Marin
NKT has completed a turnkey repair of one of the 220 kV high-voltage AC subsea export cables connecting the Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Scottish Moray Firth to the Aberdeenshire coast. In April 2025, an unplanned transmission outage occurred on one of two of Beatrice’s Transmission Capital Pa
The hull of Nexans’ new cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Electra has been launched from the dock hall at Ulstein Verft in Norway, marking the start of the finalizing phase of testing and tuning before delivery next year. The vessel is nearing the completion of the outfitting phase, which has include
Marine robotics company Ocean Infinity is set to begin a geotechnical survey later this month for Eastern Green Link (EGL5), the UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway that would connect Scotland and England. The marine survey activities for the 2 GW EGL5 are expected to commence on November 23
Greece’s Asso.subsea has placed an order with a firm headquartered in Finland for an Integrated Automation System (IAS) to be delivered for its DP 2 cable-laying vessel (CLV) currently being built in China. Valmet will supply its automation technology for the vessel named Althea, which the China Mer
Air Liquide, CentraleSupélec, ITP Interpipe, Nexans, and RTE have joined forces to develop a project that connects distant offshore wind farms to shore via a High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) superconducting transmission system. The SupraMarine demonstrator project will study the electrical co
The aftship of NKT’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV) NKT Eleonora has arrived at another Vard shipyard in Romania to be connected to the foreship and superstructure. To remind, NKT Eleonora entered the water for the first time in mid-October following the launch of its aftship at VARD’s shipyard in Br
The China Merchants Heavy Industry shipyard has begun the construction of a DP 2 cable-laying vessel (CLV) ordered by Greece’s Asso.subsea for the offshore wind market. The steel-cutting ceremony for Althea was held today, November 5, at the CMHI shipyard on Mazhou Island, Shenzhen, China. “The firs
The UK National Grid is about to begin a marine survey of a damaged section of an interconnector between France and the UK that has been operating since 1986. The survey of the IFA 2000 submarine cable is scheduled to begin today, November 5, approximately 3 nautical miles offshore Folkestone, Kent,
