Hellenic Cables Awarded Cable Contract for Gennaker Offshore Wind Farm
in the German Baltic Sea, utilizing 220kV AC technology. Hellenic Cables' scope of works includes the design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of two export cable systems, which will connect a new onshore substation, located close to Gnewitz in Northern Germany, to the Western Offshore Sub Station of Gennaker Offshore Wind Farm in the Baltic Sea.The two export cable systems will include 80 km of 220kV submarine and 210 km of 220kV underground cables as well as related accessories and they are expected to be installed and delivered in 2027.The value
Construction Starts on First UK-German Power Link Project
banks and financial institutions, including the UK Infrastructure Bank and the European Investment Bank.NeuConnect, which obtained the financial green light in July 2022, will construct new converter stations on the Isle of Grain, in south east England, and the Wilhelmshaven region, in Lower Saxony, northern Germany, connected by subsea cables travelling through British, Dutch, and German waters. The project is expected to be operational by 2028.(Reuters - Reporting by Marwa Rashad; Editing by Mike Harrison
MacArtney Operates Water Quality Measurements at the River Eider
As part of the “Zukunft Eider” project, the Waterways Authority Elbe-Nordsee has asked MacArtney Germany GmbH to operate 4 water quality probes at the River Eider in Northern Germany.The EXO III probes by YSI have been mounted at four stations along the outer- and tidal parts of the River Eider and have been collecting data on water temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen concentration and turbidity since January 2023.The measurements will continue to take place for a 12 months period, creating a high-resolution data set (measurements intervals are every 5 minutes) of these parameters
Surveyors Search for WWII ‘Highballs’
engineer Sir Barnes Wallis invented the bouncing bomb that was designed to skip over the surface of a stretch of water, avoiding anti-torpedo nets, before sinking directly next to a dam wall or battleship target. The initial bombs, codenamed Upkeep, were used successfully against the Ruhr dams in Northern Germany. Developed in parallel with the Upkeep bombs were a smaller spherical bomb codenamed Highball, and these were specifically designed as an anti-ship weapon – particularly with the German battleship Tirpitz in mind as a potential target. The Highball was destined to carry
Halls of Higher Learning
and deep-ocean science. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Topic: Polar Science No. of employees: circa 1,100 Address: Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany Tel: +49 (0)471 4831-0 Email: [email protected] www.awi.de Situated across several locations throughout northern Germany, the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) has grown from humble beginnings in the 1980s with only a handful of people to one with over a thousand, investigating regions from temperate to the world’s most extreme. Named after the German polar explorer who discovered the continental drift, the
ABB Wins $140 Mln Order for HVDC Station
ABB has received an order worth around $140 million from transmission system operators Energinet.dk in Denmark and 50Hertz Transmission in Germany to design, supply and install a high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station in Bentwisch, Northern Germany. The HVDC Light "back-to-back" converter station, the first of its kind in Europe, will allow the connection of the asynchronous AC power grids of Eastern Denmark and Germany. The deal will see ABB provide the complete including transformers, converter valves, cooling systems, control and protection and other related equipment
At Hamburg port E-mobility Project, BESIC enters crucial phase
heavy goods vehicles now transport containers between ships and the yard at the highly automated handling facility in the HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA). The aim is to charge the batteries of these container transporters when the grid has a surplus of renewable energy generated in northern Germany. The first battery-powered heavy goods vehicles in the world went into use at the HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) back in 2011. Now, a project is bringing together businesses and research institutions that are keen to find out how the batteries for these automated guided vehicles
MTR100 '13 Mariscope Meerestechnik
almost all components in house. Fully equipped electronic and mechanic workshops in Germany for the manufacturing. Fully equipped mechanic and electronic workshops for service and repair in South America. Some systems are developed in strong cooperation with other marine technology companies in northern Germany, where Mariscope is part of a Maritime Cluster. Mariscope is also highly involved with applied oceanographic research. In Argentina Mariscope is carrying out a project on Marine Mammal research related to the Southern Right Whales. (As published in the July/August 2013 edition of Marine Technologi
ABB HVDC Technology Aids Offshore Wind Power Transmission
World’s most powerful HVDC Light® sets new record voltage level of ±320 kV- more than 50 per cent higher than existing record. The HVDC Light converter station was energized at the Dörpen West substation in northern Germany, for the Dutch-German transmission system operator, TenneT. This station is the receiving end of the DolWin1 transmission link, which will integrate 800 MW of offshore wind power generated in the North Sea into the European transmission system and will operate at the new record voltage level of +/-320 kilovolts (kV). HVDC Light is a manifestation of HVDC
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