Borssele Alpha, TenneT’s first and at the same time largest connection system for wind farms on the Dutch North Sea is ready for operation. Exactly to schedule and within budget, in 2020 Borssele Alpha will unlock the green energy from offshore wind farms Borssele I and II being built by the Danish energy company Ørsted.
The International Computer Room Experts Association (ICREA) has once again granted GlobeNet’s data center in Barranquilla, Colombia its Level IV and sustainability certifications.
Strengthening the connectivity of Chile through fiber optics is one of the main objectives of the current government in the field of telecommunications and one of the biggest projects in achieving this is the Puerta Digital Asia-South America Cable, which will create the first digital highway between both continents.
Opus Interactive, a leading provider of cloud hosting services, announces the expansion of its footprint within STACK INFRASTRUCTURE’s Portland-area data center in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Tampnet and Aker BP have finished the deployment of fibre optic cable to the Aker BP operated FPSO Alvheim. The FPSO is now connected to Tampnet’s subsea fibre optic network providing high redundancy and capacity, preparing Alvheim for the digital transition.
The Prime Ministers of Australia and Timor-Leste met late last month to discuss mutual cooperation. Out of that meeting came plans for a new submarine cable system linking the two countries.
The following story is highly unusual but may be of some interest to the submarine cable community. It certainly is a serious matter and a blow to what has been a very valuable scientific research project.
As of delivery day on 7 September, COBRAcable, the so-called 'green cable' between the Netherlands and Denmark will be available for the electricity market. The subsea high-voltage direct current cable of approximately 325 kilometres has a capacity of 700 megawatts (MW).
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a cable landing license to Ketchikan Public Utilities (KPU) for the KetchCan1 submarine cable system.
COBRAcable is an unusual project in that it combines a power and a fiber optic submarine cable in a way that the industry has not really seen before. While the power cable has gotten most of the publicity, the fiber optic cable is moving along as well.
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