Company News: Europe

News on transmission equipment and service providers from Europe

• Seaway 7 selected for Seagreen 1A offshore wind farm project

  June 8, 2022
  The UK-based subsea engineering, construction and services company, Seaway 7 (the renewables business unit of Subsea 7 S.A), has been selected by Seagreen 1A Limited as a preferred supplier for the Seagreen 1A offshore wind project off the coast of Scotland.

• UK’s JDR Cable Systems awards contract for German Arcadis Ost 1 wind farm

  June 7, 2022
  The UK's cable manufacturer, JDR Cable Systems Limited, has awarded a contract to the Netherlands-based Vos Prodect Innovations (VPI) BV for the supply of cable hang-off systems for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. JDR is responsible for supplying the inter-array cables for the wind farm while Global Offshore will install them.

• TenneT signs contract with Dutch company WIND for cable service

  May 30, 2022
  Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has signed with Dutch subsea cable specialist, WIND, for the provision of cable transport and storage for offshore spare export cables.

• Moldova awards contract for 400 kV project to Indian POWERGRID

  May 23, 2022
  Indian state-owned Power Grid Corporation of India (POWERGRID) has been awarded a contract for consulting services towards the 400 kV World Bank-funded Moldova Power System Development project.

• Proserv to deliver CMS for Equinor’s Hywind Scotland floating OSW project

  May 18, 2022
  The UK-based controls technology specialist Proserv would provide its cable monitoring system (CMS) – ECG, to Equinor's 30 MW Hywind Scotland floating offshore wind (OSW) farm located off the coast of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire in north-east Scotland.

• Finland’s Fingrid awards EUR16 million transmission contract to Enersense

  May 17, 2022
  Finnish electricity transmission system operator (TSO), Fingrid, has awarded Enersense PN, a subsidiary of Finnish zero-emission energy solutions provider Enersense International, a contract for the Pyhänselkä–Herva section of the Aurora Line.

• Rambøll to modernise 100 transformers for Danish Energinet

  May 16, 2022
  Danish engineering consultancy company Rambøll has signed a framework agreement with the Danish transmission system operator (TSO), Energinet, for the modernisation of the latter’s 100 transformers in Denmark.

• Germany’s Südkabel bags contract for Greenlink [free access]

  May 13, 2022
  German cable manufacturer Südkabel GmbH has secured a contract from Japanese technology provider, Sumitomo Electric, to supply, install and commission approximately 63 km of 320 kV high-voltage direct current (HVDC) onshore cabling for the Greenlink project, the interconnector between Ireland and the UK.

• TenneT awards onshore cable connection contract for Dutch HollandseKust (West Beta)

  May 13, 2022
  Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has awarded an onshore cable connection contract to contractor consortium NRG (Denys, Alsema and Van Vulpen) for the 700 MW HollandseKust (West Beta) offshore wind project.

• Jan De Nul bags subsea cable contract for Greenlink Interconnector

  April 19, 2022
  Belgian offshore service provider, Jan De Nul Group, has signed a contract with Sumitomo Electric for the installation of two subsea high voltage direct current (HVDC) cables and one fibre optic cable for the 170-km-long (submarine length) Greenlink Interconnector between the UK and Ireland.

• Hungarian TSO MAVIR awards multiple contracts for re-construction of 220 kV lines

  April 19, 2022
  Hungary’s transmission system operator (TSO) Magyar Villamosenergia-ipari Átviteli Rendszerirányító ZRt. (MAVIR) has awarded six contracts for increasing the load capacity of 220 kV transmission lines.

• Contract awarded to Siemens Energy for German-UK interconnector

  April 13, 2022
  Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract by NeuConnect Britain Limited (NBL) for the supply of a turnkey high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system for its 525 kV NeuConnect interconnector. Siemens Energy will build two converter stations, one in the Isle of Grain in England and the other in the Wilhelmshaven region of northern Germany.

• GE unveils 420 kV, 63 kA g³ GIS circuit-breaker prototype

  March 30, 2022
  GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions unveiled its 420 kV, 63 kA g³ (pronounced 'g'-cubed) gas-insulated substation (GIS) circuit-breaker prototype.

• Seaway 7 bags inter-array cable contract for German He Dreiht OWF

  March 29, 2022
  Germany-based power generation company, Energie Baden-Wurttemberg AG (EnBW), has awarded a contract for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) works of inner-array grid cables to the UK-based subsea engineering, construction and services company, Seaway 7 (the renewables business unit of Subsea 7 S.A).

• French RTE awards EUR100 million export cable supply contract to Nexans

  March 22, 2022
  French transmission system operator (TSO), Réseau de Transport d’Electricité (RTE), has awarded an EUR100 million cable supply contract to the French copper and optical fibre cable manufacturer, Nexans, to supply and install 47 km of offshore and 18 km of onshore power export cable for the Dieppe le Tréport wind farm located in the English Channel.

• Linxon awarded contract to revamp 400 kV Kilanda substation in Sweden

  March 22, 2022
  Linxon, a joint venture (JV) between SNC-Lavalin and Hitachi Energy, has been awarded a contract by Sweden’s transmission system operator (TSO) Svenska Kraftnat (SvK) for revamping an existing 400 kV substation, located in Kilanda on the west coast of Sweden.

• British Xlinks appoints UK’s Intertek for Morocco–UK HVDC link

  March 21, 2022
  British company Xlinks has appointed UK-based company Intertek to provide quality assurance and technical advice on marine cable routing, survey specification and procurement for a high voltage direct current (HVDC) link between Morocco and the UK, that will provide low-cost, clean power to over 7 million US homes by 2030.

• Italy’s Prysmian Group completes UK-Norway North Sea Link

  March 21, 2022
  Italian cable manufacturing company, Prysmian Group, has completed the North Sea Link (NSL), a subsea electricity interconnector between the UK and Norway.

• Heerema Marine Contractors and Wave Group bag contract for UK’s Dogger Bank offshore wind

  March 21, 2022
  The Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors and the UK-based Waves Group have been awarded two separate contracts for Phase B and Phase C respectively for the Dogger Bank wind farm in the UK.

• TenneT awards HollandseKust West Beta cable contract to Boskalis consortium

  March 21, 2022
  Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has awarded a export cable contract to a consortium of Netherlands-based power cable installation company Boskalis and Orient Cable (NBO) for the installation of two 65-km long export cables.