The inter-array cable installation campaign at the Nordseecluster A offshore wind farm in Germany has been completed, with 48 cables laid, buried, terminated, and tested. “Cables rarely draw the attention that foundations, substations, or turbines do. Yet this package – laying, burial, termination,
50Hertz and Elia have launched a joint procurement for offshore high-voltage (HV) cable repair logistics and jointing services, under which the transmission system operators (TSOs) will award framework agreements valued at a total of up to €752 million. The tender, published in the Official Journal
South Korea’s Taihan Cable & Solution has signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with Belgium’s Jan De Nul and the Netherlands’ Boskalis to cooperate on high-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cable projects. The agreements were signed on June 10 during the Korea-EU Energy Transition Cooperation
Van Oord has completed the inter-array cable installation campaign at the Windanker offshore wind farm site in the Baltic Sea. According to the project owner and developer, Iberdrola, the campaign involved the installation and burial of 21 inter-array cables with a combined length of 28 kilometers.
JDR Cable Systems has opened its new subsea cable factory in Cambois, near Blyth, UK, which the company says expands its capacity to supply inter-array, interconnector and export cable systems for offshore wind projects. The new plant is aimed at supporting growing demand for offshore wind infrastru
Early works to support the installation of the mainland underground cable section of the 1.8 GW power transmission link that will connect the Scottish Western Isles to the UK national electricity transmission network for the first time are set to begin on June 8. The Western Isles HVDC Link will con
Onshore cable installation has been completed in Ireland as part of the island’s first direct electricity interconnection with the European continent via a 500-kilometer subsea cable. Developed by French and Irish transmission system operators (TSOs) Réseau de Transport d’Électricité (RTE) and EirGr
UK-based CRP Subsea has secured a contract from Seaway7 to supply cable protection systems (CPS) for ScottishPower Renewables’ East Anglia Two offshore wind farm in the UK North Sea. Under the contract, CRP Subsea will provide 142 NjordGuard cable protection systems for inter-array cable termination
The final batch of the inter-array cables for Ecowende’s Hollandse Kust West offshore wind farm was loaded onto Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexus in Eemshaven on May 15, according to TKF (Twentsche Kabelfabriek). Under the contract for the 760 MW offshore wind farm, TKF is responsible for t
Boskalis will invest in a new high-capacity cable-laying vessel (CLV) targeting the offshore wind and interconnector markets, the company said on May 18. According to the company, the vessel is designed to support growing demand for long-distance cable installation, particularly for high-voltage dir
Norway’s Ulstein Verft has delivered the cable-laying vessel (CLV) Nexans Electra to French cable systems designer and manufacturer Nexans, purpose‑built for the transport, laying, protection, repair and jointing of subsea power cables. Nexans Electra was ordered as the second vessel by Nexans at No
Belgium-headquartered GeoXYZ has been appointed to carry out unexploded ordnance (UXO) investigation and geotechnical surveys for a proposed HVDC subsea electricity interconnector that will link Northern Ireland and Scotland, with the work set to begin this month. The LirIC interconnector project wi
Carnegie Clean Energy and its supply chain partners have completed the fabrication and manufacture of many key components of the scaled CETO wave energy unit to be deployed at Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BiMEP) as part of the ACHIEVE Programme, with the final component fabrication work packages u
Fugro is set to deploy its geophysical vessel in a couple of days to carry out a maintenance survey of an interconnector between France and the UK that has been operating since 1986. The 2 GW IFA 2000 high voltage direct current (HVDC) electrical interconnector is approximately 70 kilometers long, w
