The first wind turbines of the Butendiek offshore wind farm in the North Sea started operation, wpd informed today. All foundations, cables and the substation were installed according to schedule during the last year. Today, the first of the 24 turbines so far installed started production and are fe
Nordic Yards held a dock laying ceremony of a steel element of the offshore converter platform DolWin gamma in Warnemünde on 30 January. The placing of a 200-tonne section marked another milestone in the production of the 900 MW HVDC platform. “With today´s dock-laying, we are happy to have complete
TenneT TSO GmbH has invited tenders for offshore wind farm services as part of authorisation for planning approval process, divided into: engineering, environmental professional planning, and project coordination. The required services throughout the planning approval process for an offshore wind po
TenneT’s offshore connection BorWin2 is now operational and transports the German North Sea electricity to the grid on land. BorWin2 has a capacity of 800 megawatts (MW) and can provide around one million households with electricity. With BorWin2, four grid connections with a total capacity of appro
Siemens has handed over the first North Sea grid connection, BorWin2, to TenneT following successful completion of test runs. The offshore platform of the BorWin2 grid connection is located around 100 kilometers off the German coast – northwest of the island of Borkum, after which the project was na
RWE Innogy UK is asking people in Lincolnshire living close to the proposed onshore infrastructure of the Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm how they would like a major new community investment fund to work in their area. The developer of Triton Knoll is running a month-long consultation to understand
RWE Innogy UK is asking people in Lincolnshire living close to the proposed onshore infrastructure of the Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm how they would like a major new community investment fund to work in their area. The developer of Triton Knoll is running a month-long consultation to understand
Ofgem has decided to grant an offshore transmission licence for the Gwynt y Môr offshore wind farm to a proposed licensee entity set up by a consortium comprising Balfour Beatty Investments Limited and Equitix Limited. Ofgem noted that the final confirmation of its decision has not yet been made. Gw
A collaboration between the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and GnoSys Global Ltd is supporting the development of a new insulation material for power cables to improve their performance in the onshore and offshore renewable energy industries and drive down whole life network costs. New, mo
A collaboration between the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and GnoSys Global Ltd is supporting the development of a new insulation material for power cables to improve their performance in the onshore and offshore renewable energy industries and drive down whole life network costs. New, mo
ABPmer was contracted by Cathie Associates Ltd to assess sediment mobility along the export and infield cable routes of two sub-projects within the Hornsea offshore windfarm zone. To help Cathie Associates Ltd establish the required cable burial depths, ABPmer reviewed detailed survey data to assess
German energy company EWE has announced that it will apply together with partners from the industry, politics and science for a federal project worth EUR 40 million. The newly established consortium led by EWE is named “Enera” and comprises, among others, well-known companies such as ENERCON, TenneT
NT Offshore, specialised in services to the maritime industry, offshore renewables and the oil & gas industry, has expanded into offshore cable industry. New activity is called NTO Nordic, meaning all operational equipment to perform Route Clearance (RC)/Pre-lay grapnel run (PLGR) has been acquired
ABB has successfully commissioned a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) link between Norway and Denmark to increase availability of renewable hydroelectric and wind power in the region’s electricity grid. At 500 kilovolts (kV), the Skagerrak 4 link sets a new record in transmission voltage using Volt
