Company News: Europe

News on transmission equipment and service providers from Europe

• Prysmian Group and Asso.Subsea win subsea power cable contract for offshore wind farm in France

  September 7, 2021
  Italy’s Prysmian Group and Greek company Asso.Subsea have been awarded a contract by French transmission system operator (TSO) Réseau de Transport d'Électricité (RTE), for an export subsea power cable system for the Gruissan floating offshore wind farm in Southern France.

• Elering and AST select Skepast&Puhkim for Estonian–Latvian offshore network survey

  September 7, 2021
  Elering and Augstsprieguma Tīkls AS (AST), the transmission system operators (TSO) of Estonia and Latvia respectively, have selected Skepast&Puhkim OÜ for carrying out a survey of the potential onshore route for the hybrid offshore electricity connection to be created between Estonia and Latvia.

• Global Offshore secures cable contract for Parkwind’s offshore wind farm in Germany

  September 6, 2021
  Belgium-based Parkwind has awarded a turnkey contract to Global Offshore, for the installation and burial of 27 array cables at Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany.

• Lithuanian TSO Litgrid’s shareholders approve EUR22 million contract with Zilinskis ir Co

  September 6, 2021
  Lithuania's power transmission system operator (TSO) Litgrid has got shareholder approval for the award of a EUR22.043 million contract to Zilinskis ir Co for design and reconstruction of the Neris transformer substation located in Nemencine, Vilnius District.

• Hellenic Cables wins cables contract for Danish offshore wind farms

  September 2, 2021
  Greek cable manufacturer Hellenic Cables has bagged a cable contract from Swedish power company Vattenfall for the Vesterhav Syd and Nord offshore wind farms in Denmark.

• Dutch TKF to supply inter-array cables for German Baltic Eagle offshore wind project

  August 25, 2021
  Dutch cable manufacturer BV Twentsche Kabelfabriek (TKF) has been awarded the contract for Iberdrola's 476 MW Baltic Eagle offshore wind project, by Dutch maritime contracting company, Van Oord.

• Siemens Energy to deliver HVDC technology for SuedLink

  August 23, 2021
  Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract to provide its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology for SuedLink, one of the largest energy infrastructure projects in Europe and the third HVDC corridor project in Germany.

• Dutch-German TenneT awards grid expansion contract to Arcadis-Bernard

  August 12, 2021
  Dutch-German transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has awarded a 10-year contract to Arcadis Germany GmbH, in partnership with Bernard Gruppe ZT, for the expansion of its power grid network, mainly aimed at increasing the transmission capacity between northern and southern Germany.

• Tekmar bags cable protection contract for German Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm

  August 6, 2021
  The UK-based Tekmar Energy Limited has bagged a contract from Dutch maritime contracting company, Van Oord, for supply of its Generation 10 Cable Protection System (CPS) for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.

• Danish Orsted selects Prysmian inter-array cables for new OWFs in Germany

  July 29, 2021
  Danish multinational power company Orsted has awarded Italy’s Prysmian Group a contract for the design, supply, termination and testing of inter-array submarine cable systems for the Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms (OWFs) in Germany.

• Hellenic Cables selected for submarine interconnection project in Adriatic Sea

  July 7, 2021
  Hellenic Cables, the cable segment of Belgian Cenergy Holdings, has signed a contract with major Croatian contractor Končar Group for the supply of 12-km-long, 110 kV submarine cables, accessories and related services.

• Spain's REE selects Nokia for network upgrade

  July 6, 2021
  The Spanish transmission system operator (TSO) Red Eléctrica de España (REE), has selected Finland-based Nokia to upgrade its existing network with the latter’s internet protocol (IP)/multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical technology.

• EirGrid partners with Smart Wires on groundbreaking grid project [free access]

  July 1, 2021
  Ireland’s transmission system operator (TSO) EirGrid is partnering with local power technology firm Smart Wire Grid Europe and the research and development consortium Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), on a groundbreaking project aimed at boosting the flow of renewable energy on the electricity grid.

• Swedish Sweco to provide advisory services for 10 GW North Sea energy island project

  July 1, 2021
  Sweden-based engineering consultancy company Sweco has won a four-year contract to serve as technical advisor to the Danish Energy Agency, Energistyrelsen, in connection with the establishment of a 10 GW energy island in the North Sea.

• Italy’s Prysmian wins EUR140 million contract from Turkish TSO Teias

  June 21, 2021
  talian energy and telecommunications cable group Prysmian has won a contract worth EUR140 million from the Turkish power transmission system operator (TSO) Türkiye Elektrik Iletim A.S (TEIAS), for the design, supply, installation and commissioning of two high-voltage submarine power cable links.

• Switzerland’s Hitachi ABB Power Grids to provide Europe’s largest BESS in Finland

  June 16, 2021
  Switzerland’s technology provider Hitachi ABB Power Grids has been awarded a contract to provide Finnish nuclear power company, Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), with one of Europe's largest battery energy storage systems (BESS) on the island of Olkiluoto.

• Germany’s Innogy to provide power balance services to Czech Republic’s ČEPS

  June 3, 2021
  The German energy group Innogy will provide power balance services for the Czech Republic’s power transmission system operator (TSO), ČEPS, as an integrated aggregator.

• Empower, Leonhard Weiss to renew Tsirguliina–Viru transmission line in Estonia

  June 2, 2021
  Finnish implementer of zero-emission energy solutions Enersense International's Estonian subsidiary, Empower, and Estonia's electricity and gas transmission system operator (TSO) Elering, have signed an agreement on the renewal of the 330 kV, 200-km-long Tsirguliina–Viru transmission line in Estonia.

• UK’s National Grid to use power flow technology to unlock 1.5 GW of electric capacity

  May 24, 2021
  The UK’s transmission system operator (TSO) National Grid is using transformational technology to unlock 1.5 GW of network capacity, which is enough renewable energy (RE) to power one million homes supporting the UK’s net-zero ambitions.

• Italy hires Germany’s Siemens Energy for grid stabilisation solutions

  May 12, 2021
  Italian transmission system operator (TSO) Terna SpA (Terna) has ordered two static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) systems for grid stabilisation from Germany’s Siemens Energy, which will help Italy meet new power grid challenges posed by the energy transition.