wiredinUSA April 2014

More fiber for Europe

Offshore boost for German power

Global Marine Systems has placed an order for Nexans’ fiber optic cable to fulfill three major telecommunications projects. The contract covers the supply of approximately 1,050km of Nexans URC-1 fiber optic cable. The URC-1 cables are an unrepeatered design, capableof connecting land stations up to 500km apart without the need for amplification by subsea repeaters. Global Marine will deploy two 250km fiber optic cables to connect the Ny Aalesund observation station on the Arctic island of Svalbard to Longyearbyen, the administrative capital. Since the satellite station at Longyearbyen is already connected to mainland Norway this extension, headed by UNINETT, an organization serving communication solution for universities, research institutes and high schools in Norway, will provide Ny Aalesund with high-speed access to the international network. provide communications for oil platforms in the North Sea. The third project is part of the ongoing expansion of broadband services to isolated communities in Scotland, funded by a partnership of Scottish government, Highlandsand Islands Enterprise, Broadband Delivery UK and BT. A second project will

DONG Energy is increasing its offshore wind power capacity in Germany, and has signed a contract with Nexans for the delivery and installation of 140km of 34kV cables. The inter-array cables will link individual turbines at the 582MW capacity Gode Wind 1 and 2 wind farms and connect them to an offshore transformer platform, off the Lower Saxony coast. The new agreement is part of a larger contract between DONG energy and Nexans for the supply of a total 900km of medium voltage cable for internal farm cabling. Trine Borum Bojsen, MD of the German wind sector at DONG Energy, said: “The order for Nexans shows that the German supplier industry already occupies a key position in the international offshore business, as the outline contract with Nexans not only includes the supply of our German projects Borkum Riffgrund 1 and Gode Wind, but also the supply of our UK wind farms.”

wiredInUSA - April 2014

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