Submarine Cables News
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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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BNEF: Global Net Zero Will Require $21 Trillion Investment In Power Grids
Electricity grids are the backbone of the energy transition, yet the networks we have today are not ready for the future. At least $21.4 trillion needs to be invested in the electricity grid by 2050 to support a net-zero trajectory for the world, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). The New Energy Outlook: Grids report, published today, provides a more detailed breakdown of the ...
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50Hertz Increases Investments in Grid Infrastructure to Accelerate Energy Transition
The German electricity transmission system operator 50Hertz wants to boost the connection capacity for offshore wind farms from around 1 GW today to more than 7 GW in 2030. In this way, the company and its employees can make a significant contribution to achieving climate protection targets, maintaining security of supply and strengthening energy sovereignty. "The legislation now initiated by the ...
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SSEN Avoids Carbon Emissions Equivalent to Powering 500,000 Homes for a Week, Through a Smarter Energy Approach
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has successfully utilized low-carbon energy generation on Islay, to avoid 2,450 tons of CO2 emissions, and save customers £230,000 in the process. This marks an important milestone for the UK energy system, as low-carbon technology has supported system security in an economically viable manner on the islands of Islay, Jura and Colonsay. ...
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Prysmian relaunches P-Laser, the cable for the Energy Transition
P-Laser is the first 100% recyclable cable for power distribution and transmission that reduces CO2 emissions by 40% Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, is relaunching its P-Laser cable, which for ten years now has been offering innovative technology for power transmission grids, ensuring superior electrical performance, lower costs and greater ...
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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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Siemens Black-Start Technology to Provide Critical Back-Up for San Francisco's Power Grid
Siemens announced that it has installed an upgraded control system for the Trans Bay Cable (TBC) project, a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system with voltage-sourced converter (VSC) technology realized in a modular multi-level converter (MMC) topology. The project includes a 53-mile HVDC cable that runs under the San Francisco Bay. The upgraded system will enable Trans Bay ...
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MHI to Introduce Large-capacity Lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage System to Power Grid of Orkney Islands in UK, Jointly with SSE
Tokyo, Nov 22, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), jointly with SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc), will begin an energy storage system demonstration project using the power grid in the UK's Orkney Islands, which has a high proportion of renewable energy generation in relation to demand. The project aims at demonstrating power supply stabilization in ...
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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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Africa Analysis: Directing technology transfer from China
Technology transfer is a priority for a new phase in China–Africa cooperation — but it needs the right direction, says Linda Nordling. Africa can learn a lot from China's booming economy about how science and technology can help to boost development — a fact not lost on either party. Technology transfer will be a key element of a new phase in the partnership between the two, ...
By SciDev.Net
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Dominion Virginia Power Offshore Wind Study Recommends Ocean Substations Be Added in Atlantic
One offshore substation platform with two 230,000-volt power lines is appropriate to transmit to shore every 500-700 megawatts of wind-generated electricity constructed off the coast of Virginia, a study done at Dominion Virginia Power's request recommends. The report, completed by ABB Power Systems Consulting, evaluated the offshore transmission options to support future projects and built its ...
By Dominion
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Favorable Winds Blow for Offshore Wind Power, Says Frost & Sullivan
Future prospects to depend on novel developments in foundation solutions Wind energy is the most mature technology among all renewable energy solutions. Finding appropriate sites for developing onshore wind farms might, however, soon pose a challenge due to dense urbanization (especially in western Europe) and concerns about the negative visual impact that wind farms could have on the ...
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ABB delivers longest underwater power link
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, helped TenneT and Stattnet, the Dutch and Norwegian transmission system operators, officially open a 580-kilometer power link between the two countries. The project brings the goal of a common power network and a reliable, efficient electricity supply for Europe a step closer to reality. TenneT and Stattnet jointly own the transmission ...
By ABB
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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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ABB wins US$170m contract for Baltic Sea power link
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, announced it has won a contract worth US$170 million from Svenska Kraftnät and Fingrid Oyj, the transmission system operators in Sweden and Finland. ABB will supply two HVDC (high-voltage, direct current) converter stations for the Fenno-Skan 2 power link. The converter stations will be part of an 800-MW (megawatt) extension of the existing ...
By ABB
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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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The European Investment Bank finances NorNed – the submarine power cable linking the Netherlands and Norway
While the European Commission is today unveiling a new energy technology plan, the EIB – the EU’s financing institution – is providing funding for a major European energy project to link the Netherlands and Norway by means of the world’s longest undersea power transmission cable. Torsten Gersfelt, EIB Vice-President, and Mel Kroon MBA, CEO of TenneT B.V., the national transmission grid of the ...
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Massachusetts Offshore Wind Farm Denied Permit to Site Cables
BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 18, 2007 (ENS) - The Cape Cod Commission has denied a permit for the nation's first proposed offshore wind farm to run submarine and upland transmission cables from the site in Nantucket Sound to connect with the power grid on the mainland. After voting against the proposal Thursday, the commission said it denied the permit application on procedural grounds ...
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