The Netherlands-based subsea cable specialist WIND has signed a framework agreement with TenneT for the provision of cable transfers and storage for spare export cables. The scope of the contract includes the supply of cable storage equipment, execution of cable transfers, and management and storage
The 150 GW of offshore wind capacity pledged to be reached by 2050 by Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands under the Esbjerg Declaration, signed on 18 May at the North Sea Summit, will contribute to large-scale onshore and offshore production of green hydrogen, one of the focal points of t
French engineering and technology company, Technip Energies, and its affiliates, Kanfa and Inocean, have launched the GO.H2TM by T.EN suite of carbon-free solutions for green hydrogen production. This suite of solutions – based on renewable power sources such as wind and solar – is said to be flexib
Multi-purpose pontoon NP459 is en route to the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm where it will work on repairing one of the project’s export cables. The 82.5-meter long pontoon passed N-Sea Group’s head office yesterday, 17 May, through the river Oude Maas in Dordrecht on its way to the Gwynt y Môr pro
A geophysical and environmental survey is set to commence at the Morgan and Mona offshore wind projects in the Irish Sea on 1 June. Survey vessel Titan Endeavour will carry out the nearshore survey of the projects’ cable corridors for approximately one week. The survey includes the use of a multibea
PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna and Ørsted have removed the tender lot for the Baltica 2 offshore substation topsides from the call launched in September last year, and will now consider how to re-tender it while they continue the process for the other lot under the existing tender.
London-headquartered NextGeo has completed offshore route survey activities for transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT on three wind zones in the Dutch North Sea. NextGeo finished the final reporting phase of the offshore survey operations (non-UXO) for the Hollandse Kust West Beta (HKWb), Ten No
Van Oord has contracted Peritus International to perform a study on inter-array cable stability for RWE’s Sofia offshore wind farm in the UK. The scope consists of calculating the on-bottom stability for the inter-array cables in challenging environmental conditions and shallow water. According to P
PanGeo Subsea, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kraken Robotics, has secured several cable depth of burial campaigns, valued at more than $3 million, in Europe using its 3D acoustic Sub-Bottom Imager (SBI). Under these contracts set to be completed throughout 2022, the SBI will be used as the cable dete
Ørsted now expects costs to reinstate the integrity of inter-array cables affected by cable protection issues at some of the company’s offshore wind farms to amount to up to DKK 1.3 billion (around EUR 175 million) and not up to DKK 3 billion as initially anticipated. As reported, Ørsted discovered
Danish energy operator Energinet has issued a tender looking for consultancy services for the expected subsea cable routes of the planned Energy Islands in the North and Baltic Seas. The scope of work includes consultancy services regarding the external threat and risk assessment as well as assessme
The UK Government has announced its intention to establish future offshore wind Multi-Purpose Interconnectors (MPIs) which will provide a more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to integrating 50 GW of offshore wind capacity into the grid by 2030, and could also enable Britain to export
NKT has commissioned the 220 kV HVAC power cable system connecting the 1.3 GW Hornsea Two offshore wind project in the UK to the shore. NKT manufactured the power cables for the project at its factory in Karlskrona, Sweden, which runs on 100% green electricity, minimizing the carbon footprint of the
Installation works are well underway at the 1.5 GW Hollandse Kust Zuid – the world’s first subsidy-free offshore wind farm – to ensure that electricity starts flowing to the Dutch grid in early May. The first of the wind farm’s 140 Siemens Gamesa 11.0-200 DD wind turbines was installed at the site s
