New Design Recommendations to Prevent Export Cable Failure

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The Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), a collaboration of eight developers and the Carbon Trust has today published new recommendations for fibre optic cable design to mitigate the risk of export cable failure.

The cost-effective design changes are the outcome of the Fibre Optic Cable Protection Assessment project managed by the Carbon Trust and funded by OWA partners EnBW, Equinor, Ørsted, RWE, ScottishPower Renewables, Shell, SSE Renewables, and Vattenfall Wind Power. In 2017, the UK’s Offshore Wind Programme Board published a ... More: Official Press Release Carbon Trust / OWA

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