Carbon Trust issues design advice to prevent export cable failure - reNews
New recommendations for fibre optic cable design to mitigate the risk of export cable failure have been published by the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) in the UK. 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, Orsted, RWE, ScottishPower Renewables, Shell, SSE Renewables, and Vattenfall. The recommendations are likely to increase the cost of the export cable by between 0-0.5% depending on the design that it replaces and will not affect the installation cost. Therefor...
Source: renews.biz