wiredinUSA July 2018

Planning progress

New chair for HSE team

Orsted has cleared the initial planning hurdle for its 2.4GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the North Sea, off the east coast of England. The UK Planning Inspectorate has formally accepted the project application for examination, with hearings and representations to follow. Based in Denmark, Orsted is planning to build up to 300 turbines at the Hornsea 3 site, which will also feature up to six export cables. Orsted is currently building the 1.2GW Hornsea 1 and has a contract in place for the 1.4GW Hornsea 2, which is due online between 2022 and 2024. Orsted has cleared the initial planning hurdle for its Horn- sea 3 offshore wind farm in the North Sea, UK. Photograph courtesy of Orsted-Hornsea 1

Sophie Barbeau

Sophie Barbeau has been appointed chairwoman of the Europacable health, safety and environmental (HSE) team, and a member of the Europacable executive board. She takes over the leadership of the team from Antonio Traversi of Prysmian Group. Mrs Barbeau joined the Europacable HSE team in 2011 and currently chairs the product and legislation group. Based in Lyon, France, Barbeau leads Nexans’ sustainable development technical team covering environmental standardization, product compliance, and the deployment of life cycle approach and ecodesign within Nexans. She has a degree and a PhD in polymers and composite materials. In addition to Europacable’s executive board there are six working teams currently operating within Europacable: the communication team chaired by Mr Kristoffer Gleberg (NKT Cables); a digital team chaired by Mr Philippe Vanhille (Prysmian Group); an energy team chaired by Mr Raul Gil (Prysmian Group); the HSE team now chaired by Mrs Sophie Barbeau (Nexans); the industry team chaired by Mr Benjamin Fitoussi (Nexans); and a technical management team chaired by Mr Friedrich Müller (Nexans).

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