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Jan De Nul Inks Orsted Hornsea 3 Export Cable Contract

Jan De Nul Group has signed the export cable contract for the Hornsea 3 offshore farm with Ørsted and will be responsible for the...

Correll Group Contracts with Hellenic Cables for Revolution Wind Offshore Farm

Correll Group’s electrical engineering division has secured a contract with Hellenic Cables for the termination and testing of the inter-array cables on the turbines...

Hollandse Kust Alpha Receives Offshore Grid Connection Certificate Ahead of Schedule

After three years of development and construction, the grid connection for the Hollandse Kust (West) Alpha offshore wind project in the Netherlands is ready...

Pattern Energy Closes on Financing, Starts SunZia Construction

Pattern Energy Group has closed an $11 billion non-recourse financing and started full construction of SunZia Transmission and SunZia Wind.  Together, it is the largest...

Prysmian Group Commissions Inter-Array Cable System for Fecamp Offshore Farm

Prysmian Group has successfully commissioned the inter-array cable system for the Fécamp offshore wind farm, located in the English Channel in Normandy, some 24...

Pacific Green’s Richborough Substation Battery Storage Project Goes Operational

A battery storage project developed by Pacific Green and owned by the Sosteneo Energy Transition Fund is now connected and operational on the transmission...

Wood to Develop Converter Stations for Dragados Offshore

Industry consulting company Wood has been awarded a contract by Dragados Offshore for engineering design and regulatory support in developing three 2 GW converter...

IBEW Signs On to Build 580-Mile Transmission Line Through Arizona, New Mexico

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has signed a project labor agreement to build a $1.3 billion, 580-mile transmission line across Arizona and...

ComEd Expands Illinois Wilton Center Substation

ComEd has expanded its 765 kV Wilton Center substation, enabling the largest cluster of utility-scale onshore wind and solar projects interconnected to the Illinois...

FirstEnergy Subsidiaries Awarded Mid-Atlantic Transmission Projects

FirstEnergy subsidiaries Potomac Edison and Mid-Atlantic Interstate Transmission (MAIT) have been awarded transmission projects totaling more than $800 million in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and...

Invenergy Forms NJ Energy Transmission Initiative

Invenergy has formed Jersey Link, an energy transmission initiative, with the goal of supporting New Jersey’s clean energy market.  As the state pursues an additional...

Prisma Photonics Opens First U.S. Office in Austin 

Prisma Photonics, an Israeli startup utilizing optical fiber technology to monitor large-scale power-utility infrastructure, has opened its first U.S. office in Austin, Texas.  Founded in...

DNV Wraps Up First Phase of Work on Offshore Wind Substation Standards

DNV has successfully concluded Phase 1 of its joint industry project (JIP) aimed at establishing offshore substation standards for the growing floating wind sector. The...

Nexans Installs Export Cable for South Fork Wind

Nexans has successfully installed the export cable for Ørsted and Eversource's South Fork Wind Farm in Long Island, N.Y. The company supplied and spliced the...

DOE Aiming $1.3 Billion Toward Major Transmission Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) says it is committing up to $1.3 billion to transmission lines crossing six states, enabling 3.5 GW of additional capacity...

Seaway7 to Handle Inter-Array Cables for Offshore Wind Parks

Seaway7 has received a contract from Equinor and partner Polenergia for the inter-array cables of the MFW Bałtyk II and MFW Bałtyk III bottom-fixed...

DOE Funding Advanced Grid Initiatives with Nearly $3.5 Billion

The U.S. Department of Energy is putting $3.46 billion toward 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability across the...

Major Midwest Transmission Project Secures Final Siting Approval

The Missouri Public Service Commission (MPSC) has approved Invenergy’s request to amend its existing certificate of convenience and necessity for the 800-mile Grain Belt...

Too Much of a Good Thing? Heavy Wind Power Presence Leads to Interconnection Inefficiencies

On balance, the rapid growth in North American wind power generation is a positive development. More projects and more connections to the grid will...

U.S. Action Plan for Offshore Wind Transmission Debuts

The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) and U.S. Interior Department (DOI) have released “An Action Plan for Offshore Wind Transmission Development in the U.S. Atlantic...

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