October 10, 2022
By John Konard

A subsea power cable (click here) is now online after an earlier outage caused a complete blackout on a small Danish island. The cable is located near the Nord Stream pipeline which caused some European media pundits to worry that it was an attack on the power grid.

The cable, which links the island of Bornholm Denmark to the Swedish mainland, was reconnected just before noon today a spokesman for the German Energy giant EON SE told Bloomberg. The company said the power was shutdown because of a small fault landside and not an attack on the cable or cyber system.

The cable is the only link to a major power grid and supplies the 40,000 people who live on the island. It’s located near the Nord Stream pipelines.

The power cable has been damaged several times in the past, most recently earlier this year, but an investigation showed that a ship’s anchor had likely caused the damage.

A power plant on the island was put online to produce electricity during the cable outage, Danish media reported.

October 10, 2022
By Mike Schuler

All 33 offshore wind turbines (click here) have now been installed at Japan’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm.

The installation was carried out by Seajacks International’s Seajacks Zaratan jackup vessel at the Akita and Noshiro offshore wind farm situated off the Japanese Akita Prefecture.

The project, which is owned by Akita Offshore Wind Corporation (AOW), is the first commercial-scale fixed-bottom wind farm to be constructed in Japan. It is being constructed at two locations just off Akita Port and the nearby Noshiro Port.

The two locations have a total capacity of 140 megawatts (MW), enough to power approximately 150,000 homes. The power will be sold to Tohoku Electric Power Co. under a 20-year purchase agreement....