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NKT invests in its high-voltage power cable factories to prepare for green growth
In 2020, NKT was awarded large high-voltage power cable projects for EUR 2.3bn supporting the transition to renewable energy including a substantial part of the German Corridor Projects designed to transmit green power from across the country. For NKT, the large order backlog and the accelerated transition to renewable energy provides opportunities for future growth and the company is investing ...
By NKT A/S
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NKT will invest EUR 1bn in high-voltage capabilities and capacity at Swedish factory
NKT has announced plans to build a new factory including a third extrusion tower in Karlskrona, Sweden, and a new market-leading power cable vessel. The investments are driven by a increasing demand for high-voltage power cables, strong order intake and a record order backlog of more than EUR 7bn at the end of Q1 2023. Since March 2023, NKT has confirmed high-voltage contract awards and booking ...
By NKT A/S
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Submarine Electricity Transmission
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Submarine Electricity Transmission http://www.reportlinker.com/p0575354/Submarine-Electricity-Transmission.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Electric_power_energy HVDC and HVAC Submarine Power Cables: Supply Constraints, Demand Drivers, Technology Issues, Prominent Projects, ...
By ReportLinker
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Electrical engineering experts boost tendering team with new hire
Yorkshire-based power engineering firm Smith Brothers has enlisted a new tendering engineer, as it prepares for further continued growth in 2018. Marc Hildreth joins the high voltage experts from Schneider Electric, bringing 12 years of electrical engineering experience to the 5-strong tendering team. As team leader of the 11kV project division in his previous role, his key responsibilities ...
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Smith Brothers power system design team doubles in size
High voltage electrical engineering firm Smith Brothers has added 39 years of power system design expertise to its portfolio with a quartet of specialist appointments at its Sheffield office – doubling the headcount from four to eight.Elland-headquartered Smith Brothers opened its second Yorkshire premises – on Parkway Avenue, Sheffield – in September 2018, to further bolster its extensive remit ...
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ABB cables connect the world’s power systems
The orders are from an impressive cross-section of utilities, grid operators and large industrial energy consumers. They want stable grids, an efficient and reliable way to trade energy, and the ability to deliver electric power in an environmentally friendly and cost effective way, from the mainland to consumers at sea, or from the sea to consumers on the mainland. Some current projects using ...
By ABB
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NKT Agrippina is now ready to support the growing offshore wind market
NKT has christened its new energy-efficient power cable barge being part of a larger investment program to support the growing demand in offshore wind industry. The barge NKT Agrippina is now ready for her maiden trip transporting power cables for the German offshore wind project Ostwind 2. NKT Agrippina is named after the founder of Cologne, Germany, and is specially designed to transport ...
By NKT A/S
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C-Power and BIRNS Connect on SeaRAY Autonomous Offshore Power System Demonstration
A key aspect of succeeding in business is building meaningful connections. That’s why BIRNS, Inc. and C-Power are pleased to announce their new partnership in support of C-Power’s demonstration of its SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS) at the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site in Hawaii. BIRNS is supplying BIRNS Millennium subsea connectors and cable assemblies for ...
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EUR 300m to finance deepest electricity cable between Italy and Sardinia
The European Investment Bank is advancing a EUR 300 million loan to Terna – Rete Elettrica Nazionale S.p.A., which is responsible in Italy for electricity transmission and dispatching over the high-voltage and extra-high voltage grid – to help finance a new submarine high-voltage power cable between the Italian mainland and Sardinia. The project, known as SAPEI (SArdegna-PEnisola Italiana) ...
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Prysmian Group is among the three finalists for IPMA Global Project Excellence Award 2019
On 1st October, at the IPMA Global Awards Gala at the 31st IPMA World Congress in Mérida, Mexico, Prysmian Group made the podium at the IPMA Global Project Excellence Award. Founded in 1965, IPMA is a federation of more than 75 Member Associations that every year organises an international competition to promote excellence and recognise teams that display and can prove great achievements ...
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Nordseecluster: RWE chooses Chantiers de l’Atlantique as key supplier for its 1.6-GW offshore wind cluster off the German coast
RWE is making further progress on developing the Nordseecluster, a 1.6-gigawatt (GW) cluster of four offshore wind farms in the German North Sea. The company has selected Atlantique Offshore Energy, the marine energy business unit of French company Chantiers de l’Atlantique, as the preferred supplier for two electrical offshore substations. Sven Schulemann, RWE’s Managing Director ...
By RWE AG
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UK offshore wind center targets O&M savings after new installation records
Following fresh installation breakthroughs, Vattenfall's new commercial wind test facility in Scotland will support new operations solutions for the latest high-capacity turbines, bucket foundations and cabling. Earlier this month, Sweden's Vattenfall officially launched its 93 MW European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay, north-east Scotland. Supported by UK and ...
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ABB will power up the world’s biggest financial district
Occupying a greenfield site of more than 500 acres in the rapidly developing state of Gujarat, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) will be the world’s largest international financial services center and IT hub when it is completed in 2017. The site consists of about 100 million square feet of commercial and residential floor space, including an 80-storey signature building known as ...
By ABB
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Energy: EU invests €647 million in key energy infrastructure
Today (Oct 29, 2014) Member States agreed to allocate €647 million to support key priority infrastructure projects. The bulk of the support goes to gas projects in the Baltic region as well as in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Funding will come from an EU programme called the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). The supported projects will increase Europe’s energy security and ...
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EU Invests 444 Million in Key Energy Infrastructure
Today (2/17) EU Member States agreed on the Commission's proposal to invest 444 million in priority European energy infrastructure projects. The 18 selected electricity, smart grids and gas projects are seen as contributing to achieving the Energy Union's goals by connecting European energy networks, increasing security of energy supply, and contributing to the sustainable development by ...
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ComEd: Smart Grid Program Delivering on Promises
ComEd reported this week (4/6) to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) that infrastructure programs authorized under the Smart Grid Law are on schedule, with some of the major projects being completed in June, and delivering on promises as the program has reduced the frequency and duration of service interruptions by 44 and 48 percent, respectively. ComEd's 2017 update to its Infrastructure ...
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Siemens to connect Thanet offshore wind farm to the British power grid
Siemens Energy and consortium partner Prysmian Cables & Systems, have been awarded an order worth approximately EUR 87 million by Thanet Offshore Wind Ltd. to connect the Thanet offshore wind farm to the British power grid. Generating enough electricity to power over 167,000 homes, the wind farm with an installed capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) will be constructed in the North Sea, eleven ...
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Siemens Introduces DC transmission System for Medium Voltage to the Market
With MVDC PLUS (Medium Voltage Direct Current Power Link Universal System), Siemens is introducing a new direct-current transmission system to the market that will be serve as an efficient transmission route in medium-voltage AC grids from 30 to 150 kilovolts (kV). Siemens has developed the transmission system for grid operators who need to enlarge their infrastructure to handle the increasing ...
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Japan starts up offshore wind farm near Fukushima
Japan switched on the first turbine at a wind farm 20 kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of Fukushima on Monday, feeding electricity to the grid tethered to the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant onshore. The wind farm near the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant is to eventually have a generation capacity of 1 gigawatt from 143 turbines, though its significance is not limited to the energy it ...
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EUR 100m to ACEA for Rome’s power grid
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the multi-utility ACEA today initialled a EUR 100m loan for the planned investments on Rome’s power grid. This loan is the first tranche of the EUR 200m financing operation approved in June by the EIB in support of ACEA’s four-year energy sector plan (2008-2011), which will cost over EUR 400m. The project, which is in line with the EIB’s lending criteria in ...
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