wiredInUSA January 2019

Halfway point

PD testing

Prysmian group has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with GCC Electrical Equipment Testing Laboratory (GCC Lab)—a testing facility for power transmission and distribution cables andaccessories located inDammam(Saudi Arabia) — for a technical cooperation to develop services associated with testing, inspection and certification activities in the GCC region. Prysmian will cooperate with GCC Lab to perform partial discharge (PD) tests, based on the group’s Pry-Cam wireless technology, on behalf of third parties. fast, accurate and reliable partial discharge measurements, diagnosis and defect localization without needing to switch off the system, covering every aspect of condition assessment for any electrical equipment from 3kV to 600kV. The agreement involves the supply of Pry- Cam equipment, training at Prysmian headquarters for GCC Lab’s engineers, Pry-Cam PD training sessions in GCC Lab to third parties, and on-line PD services on site. Pry-Cam technology allows

DeepOcean has installed the first of two HVAC export cables needed for the UK’s 714MW East Anglia One offshore wind farm. Nexans, the company responsible for the supply of the export cables, gave DeepOcean the contract in January 2017 to carry out the transport and installation work. DeepOcean’s Maersk Connector simultaneously laid and buried the 85km three-core cable using its 7,000-tonne carousel and ACP2 cable plow spread. The project’s offshore substation was installed some 59km from the coast of Lowestoft at the end of August. At present around 60 electrical engineers and technicians are working to complete the installation of the equipment required to commission the substation and to have it ready for the first turbines. The East Anglia One offshore wind project is scheduled to come into operation in 2020.

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