wiredInUSA June 2019

Cable protection offshore

Rural connection project

Romania’s Ministry of Communications and Information Society has announced plans to connect 150,000 households in 698 isolated areas to the country’s fiber optic network, enabling operators to offer high speed internet, television and telephony services to consumers and businesses. Romania’s financial newspaper, Ziarul Financiar , reported that the $100.4 million three-year “Next Generation Networks” project will be funded by the EU. A total of 18 financing contracts have already been signed, while a further six contracts are in the pipeline and three others will be signed in the near future. Alexandru Petrescu also revealed that he has released the use of a section of the Ro-Net network in 110 localities in the Moldavia region. Ro- Net, a major communications infrastructure network built by Telekom Romania to connect isolated areas, has been subject to a series of delays since its launch in 2014. Less than 40 percent of rural areas in Romania are currently covered by fiber optic networks. Romania’s communications minister, Alexandru Petrescu Communications minister

Distributed buoyancy modules. Image: Trelleborg

Trelleborg will provide cable protection for the 25MW WindFloat Atlantic project off the coast of Portugal. The contract, with JDR Cable Systems, is for the design, manufacture and delivery of dynamic cable protection products, including distributed buoyancy modules (DBM). JDR Renewables will supply the 66kV inter-array cables for the project. Developer WindPlus is installing the floating wind farm, which will be situated in water depths of 100m off the coast of Viana do Castelo. Trelleborg’s UK offshore operation supplied cableprotectionproducts for JDR’sWindFloat 1 prototype in 2011. Trelleborg’s DBMs and bend limitation products are designed to secure, guide and protect power cables from excessive movement and bending that can cause fatigue damage. In floating production environments, subsea electrical power cables are used to inter- connect floating structures on offshore wind farms and run between the substation and the shore. The WindFloat platform is connected to the seabed by a catenary mooring system, so avoiding the offshore operations associated with installing traditional fixed structures and reducing potential impact on the environment.

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