Pursuing an active exit strategy from nuclear power, the Belgian government is set to double the area of the country’s North Sea waters made available to offshore wind parks after 2020. The country already has four offshore wind parks that produce 871 MW of power and wants to increase that capacity to 2.2 GW by 2020 and to 4 GW by 2030. Leading the way in this transition is Parkwind, the Belgian company that develops, finances, builds and o...

As offshore wind turbines continue to grow in size and power output, wind farm developers and operators are preparing to switch over to 66 kilovolt (kV) technology. This is because operating at the higher voltage offers important lifecycle cost-efficiency benefits such as the possibility of reducing the number of substations required as well as reducing the length of cables that need to be installed. 

As the world’s energy transmission needs continue to increase, a new generation of increasingly high performance and efficient power systems will be critical to keep up with the trend. For almost a century, CIGRE has been gathering experts together to share their knowledge and join forces to improve the electric power systems of today and tomorrow.

Worldwide demand for high and low density polyethylene is increasing, especially within Asia, where it is an important raw material for the manufacture of various plastic products for both domestic and industrial uses. 

Having been awarded the subsea umbilical contract from Equinor for Troll Phase three development, Nexans will provide a total of 27km of complex umbilicals with power, fibre-optic and hydraulic elements for the next development phase of the most prolific oil and gas field on the Norwegian continental shelf.

Today’s government initiatives aimed at reducing the carbon footprint largely contribute to the transition of the automotive sector. Furthermore, as the price of batteries continues to decrease, electric cars could become cheaper than internal combustion engine vehicles, benefitting from a significant drop in life-cycle costs. By 2040, Electric Vehicles (EVs) could even account for 54% of new car sales providing the charging infrastruc...

Nexans has gained contracts worth a total of over Euros 20 million to design, manufacture and install Extra High Voltage cable systems for two of Europe’s leading Transmission System Operators – Terna of Italy and Amprion of Germany. Terna Rete Italia’s new 380 kV project is aimed at improving the quality of the electricity network serving South-Eastern Sicily, especially as electricity production in this area increases both through convent...

Nexans has been awarded an 11 million Euro contract by the State Grid Corporation of China to supply a high voltage power cable system that will help the Beijing Electric Power support the future development and extension of the power transmission infrastructure in China’s capital city.

Nexans today announced the establishment of the ‘Nexans Foundation’, a common platform for all its corporate sponsorship activities, aimed at assisting and supporting Nexans’ active and long-term participation in solidarity initiatives across the world.

Westermost Rough, and Nexans recently signed an agreement for the delivery and assembly of medium-voltage submarine cables for the Westermost Rough wind farm, which is to be built eight kilometres off the Holderness coast in Yorkshire.

Nexans has launched an innovative range of remote operated vehicle tether cables, known as Enable, developed specifically to enable ROVs to work longer and harder by incorporating bending-optimized Dyneema fibre as the strength member. This development, reported at the Underwater Intervention 2013 conference in New Orleans, offers a major increase in the bending fatigue resistance of tether cables, which is an important step towards more cost-eff...

Nexans has recently hosted a technical conference highlighting the vital role that Power Line Communications solutions, deployed over existing electrical distribution infrastructure, will play in the creation of Smarter Grids.

Nexans has won a contract worth more than 50 million Euro to supply a total of 57 km of high-voltage subsea power export cables to Northwind NV in the North Sea. The project comprises 14 km of cable to connect Belwind Phase 2 to the Northwind wind farm (formerly known as Eldepasco), together with a further 43 km of cable that will transfer a total of 381 MW produced by both wind farms to the onshore grid connection at Zeebrugge.

Nexans, Siemens and American Superconductor Corporation announced the successful qualification of a transmission voltage resistive fault current limiter that utilizes high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire. This marks the first time a resistive superconductor FCL has been developed and successfully tested for power levels suitable for application in the transmission grid (138 kV insulation class and nominal current of 900 A).

Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has announced its intention to build a plant for the manufacture of underground Extra High Voltage (EHV) cables and possible extension to submarine HV activities, in the United States. Nexans is investing in the new plant to capitalize on the significant investments expected in EHV cables in North America in the coming years.

Nexans overhead conductors will be used to construct the first transmission line for the Madeira River Power Interconnection project consisting of a 2,375 km HVDC link between the new Rondônia hydroelectric plant and the city of São Paulo, across five Brazilian states and 86 towns and cities.

Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, is supplying specially designed power cables to NG² for its innovative PLUG shoreside power system that makes medium-voltage power connections between shore and ship a pushbutton operation. Nexans’ Buflex PLUG cable will be used in NG²’s prototype project between Port of Oslo (Norway's largest cargo port) and Color Line A/S, to power its M/V Color Magic RoPax ferry while berthed at p...

Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, has created its new KINOPTIC branded range of optical fibre products to provide a complete fully coordinated FTTH (Fibre To The Home) solution to the meet the specific needs of the rapidly growing FTTH sector.