ABB Awarded Contract To Build 100-Mile-Long Undersea Cable
I have a warm spot in my heart for almost all the clients I had as a marketing consultant, and I always smile when I come across a client company that has been awarded a nice new contract. Here’s an article that describes ABB’s (an old market research client) 145 kilovolt, 100-mile-long undersea cable. Unfortunately, the electricity (up to 55 megawatts) is going to power an oil and gas field.
Oh well. If you’re going to be in the oil and gas business anyway, transmitting electricity from the grid is actually better for the environment than generating it on site. And maybe next time their customer will be in some other, more benign industry.
Norway is conducting world leading research into floating offshore wind turbines.
Whilst I do not know the exact location of the oilfield wind speeds are generally very good in the Norwegian section of the North Sea.
This cable could be ideal for connecting such a wind farm to shore. Why not consider a floating wind farm and or wave power generators co-located with the oil field, and take advantage of the cost savings made possible by the cable which is already being paid for by the oil company?