A wholly owned principal subsidiary of Chinese state-owned electric utility corporation State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) has completed the purchase of a 20% share in a subsidiary owned by Greek transmission system operator (TSO) Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO or ADMIE), this way
Norwegian ship designer and shipbuilder VARD has launched the hybrid power cable lay and construction vessel it is building for the Japanese company Toyo Construction at its shipyard in Romania. VARD held the keel laying ceremony in September 2024 for the vessel, while this March the aft part of NB
LS Cable & System has been named the preferred supplier of subsea cables for the 1 GW Haesong offshore wind farm in South Korea. LS Marine Solution, a subsidiary of LS Cable & System, was also selected as the preferred bidder for installation works. Together, the two companies will deliver a fully i
Italian cabling giant Prysmian Group will soon kick off the second phase of cabling works in UK waters for NeuConnect, a high-voltage submarine cable that will create the first direct energy transmission link between the UK and Germany. The 725-kilometer land and subsea cable system is said to creat
All inter-array cables have been installed at EnBW’s He Dreiht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Seaway7 said on July 1 it completed the installation of the last inter-array cable, connecting the 13th and last string of the He Dreiht project to the BorWin epsilon converter platform, part o
In response to an increasing need for safeguarding critical maritime infrastructure due to ongoing geopolitical uncertainty and an increasingly dynamic risk picture, Norway’s KONGSBERG has opened a maritime test bed for protecting potentially vulnerable infrastructure such as subsea pipelines, power
South Korean subsea cable installation company LS Marine Solution has signed a contract with Türkiye’s Tersan Shipyard for the construction of its new, ultra-large cable laying vessel (CLV). To expand orders for large-scale HVDC and offshore wind projects, both domestic and in Europe and North Ameri
The partially outfitted hull of a new cable-laying vessel (CLV) being built for Nexans has started its journey from Poland to Norway, where it will be finalized. Based on an ST-297 CLV design by Skipsteknisk, Nexans Electra, ordered as the second vessel by Nexans at Norway’s Ulstein Verft, is an upd
Jan De Nul has pulled two export cables for the 1,080 MW Thor offshore wind farm, currently under construction in Denmark. The export cables will transport clean, renewable electricity from the offshore site 22 kilometers out in the North Sea to the Danish mainland. In 2023, Jan De Nul, together wit
The UK Government has decided to reject the huge £25 billion (around €29.5 billion) project that would import 11.5 GW of solar and wind power from Morocco to the British grid via 4,000-kilometer HVDC subsea cables. The Xlinks Morocco-UK power project envisions the development of a commercial-scale r
The Italy-based global power cable manufacturer Prysmian will supply subsea export cables for the HydroWing tidal energy array, led by UK-based Inyanga Marine Energy Group at the Morlais site off Anglesey, Wales. Scheduled for deployment in early 2026, the HydroWing array aims to deliver 20 MW of pr
After two years of development, offshore surveys and public engagement, Scottish transmission system operator (TSO) SSEN Transmission has submitted a marine cable license application for the Spittal-Peterhead subsea link in Scotland. The 2 GW bi-pole, 525 kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) link w
The Finnish and Swedish transmission system operators (TSOs) Fingrid and Svenska kraftnät have initiated the planning process for the third submarine cable between the countries which would replace the first connection at the end of its operational lifetime in the late 2030s. Under a signed letter o
Singapore-headquartered offshore marine service contractor Kim Heng has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the newly incorporated government-linked Singapore Energy Interconnections (SGEI) to cooperate on submarine power projects. As part of the non-binding MoU signed on June 9, the par
