wiredInUSA December 2020

G8 Subsea has completed the landing and pull-in of the world’s first submarine cable for offshore solar power and data

Singapore cable

Singapore-based engineering firm G8 Subsea has completed the landing and pull-in of the world’s first submarine cable for offshore solar power and data. The Northern cable landing, situated in Woodlands, Singapore, will transmit data and 5MW of renewable energy to the network infrastructure on the mainland. G8 used its own cable protection duct system (CPDS) to facilitate the cable landing process which, it believes, vastly reduces the cost of cable landings. The CPDS is applicable to both telecommunications and high voltage subsea cables, and ensures the long-term safety of the cable on both sea and land portions.

components of an offshore floating solar plant in Woodlands. The efficiency of data collection and condition monitoring of floating solar plant and subsea cables is an important aspect of the trials, as each system has multiple subsea linkages and components subjected to the challenging subsea environment. In September 2020 G8 delivered the world’s first modular floating substation designed for the future expansion of offshore floating solar plants at industrial scale on water. G8 says that the modular floating transformer platform (FTP) can hold stable and exact positioning of up to 20MW capacity of solar plant equipment and power inverters under marine conditions, while allowing maintenance and expansion capabilities to the plant.

G8 also carried out trials to monitor critical mooring points and subsea cable

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