Nexans to Link Orkney Islands with UK Mainland via 220MW Interconnector
and is a critical step in strengthening the UK power network, supplying demand centers in the North of Scotland and beyond.The interconnector will be manufactured at Nexans’ plants in Halden Norway for the offshore sections, Charleroi, Belgium for the onshore cable sections, and Cortaillod in Switzerland for the accessories.Nexans will also install the cable using its state-of-the-art cable laying vessels.The project will be delivered in 2027 by Nexans experts at multiple locations, including in the UK and adds to Nexans’ expanding portfolio of interconnectors including the Celtic Interconnector
Tethys Robotic's new ROV Leverages Nortek DVL Tech
A new Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) from Switzerland’s Tethys Robotics is aiming to provide a safer alternative to putting divers in the water, utilizing Nortek DVL to complete its navigation solution.Jonas Wüst, CEO at Tethys Robotics, set out to meet these challenges of working efficiently, safely underwater following a student research project at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich), a public university in Switzerland. Tethys Robotics’ goal was to build an autonomous underwater robot capable of being deployed in rough water with currents of up to 2
Plastic Levels in Lake Geneva as High as World's Oceans
a near-pristine body of water, but new research has found that its plastic pollution levels are as high as those in the oceans.Oceaneye, a Geneva-based non-profit that has for more than a decade been scouring the seas to collect plastic fragments, has turned its attention closer to home to landlocked Switzerland."We compared the levels with the ocean data and reached the conclusion that the microplastic pollution on the lake surface is the same order of magnitude as the oceans," said Pascal Hagmann, the founder and director of Oceaneye.He was speaking from the stern of a sailing vessel that
Pascal Radue Takes the Helm as Executive VP at Nexans' Generation & Transmission Business Group
Transformation."As Nexans aims to extend its momentum in offshore markets and interconnectors, especially in the US and Europe, Pascal Radue will actively contribute to the Group’ s ambition to become a pure player in electrification worldwide," Nexans said.Pascal Radue is from Switzerland, he holds a Master of Engineering (Hons) degree in Naval Architecture from Southampton University in the UK.He started his career with Alstom Power in Belfort, France, in 2001. During his tenure with Alstom and later GE, Pascal held various leadership positions and most recently was the CEO of
Inside the Subsea Cable Firm Secretly Helping America Take on China
States.The U.S. Department of Justice in 2020 blocked Google, Meta and Amazon from building fiber-optic cables from the United States to Hong Kong due to concerns about Chinese spying.Microsoft – whose President Brad Smith said in 2017 that the tech sector needed to be a “neutral digital Switzerland” – announced in May that it had discovered Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, a rare example of a big tech firm calling out Beijing for espionage. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at the time that the accusations were part
Hydromea Moves Fast Forward on Subsea Robotics, Comms Tech
vehicles know where they are with respect to the others. “I did my PhD in underwater communication for swarms, and Alex did his PhD on distributed localization using acoustics,” said Schill.The pair separated to pursue their individual academic projects, but a few years later met again in Switzerland at the EPFL University, mutually deciding that their work apart actually fit together, and moving together forward the pair envisioned their respective studied evolving into product for the subsea market. And do Hydromea was founded.“Initially we developed Vertex, which was an AUV for environment
MTR100: For USVs and AUVs, is it a Hydrogen Future?
AUVs with hydrogen powered support USVs is the goal of the collaborative ENDURUNS project.The consortium includes space, defense, marine and drone technology companies, universities, institutions, consultancies, a certification body and a port from Greece, the UK, Korea, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Lithuania, Belgium and Cyprus. Their goal is a 5.5m-long, hydrogen fuel cell powered hybrid AUV, with a Li-ion battery for supplementary power, in case of failure or emergency, and energy management for the propulsion system and sensors.It will be partnered with a USV that will follow the
Ashtead Technology Wraps Subsea Installation Monitoring Project Using LUMA Modems
firm Ashtead Technology said Monday it had recently completed its first significant subsea monitoring project using Hydromea’s LUMA high-speed through-water wireless optical modems since signing the global rental partnership.The rental partnership agreement was signed in June last year with Switzerland-based Hydromea, a subsea wireless access provider, for the use of Hydromea’s LUMA high-speed through-water wireless optical modems as an integral part of its AMS+ and DMS (Autonomous & Deflection Monitoring Systems) for the global subsea construction market.Describing its first significant
SP80: 80-knot Sailboat Demands High-Performance Sensing
to glide on the water, featuring a super-ventilating triangular hydrofoil and towed by a huge kite wing. “Several projects are in the running to break the long-standing world sailing speed record,” said Mayeul van den Broek, CEO of the SP80 startup based in Renens near Lausanne, Switzerland, and created in 2019 by a team of engineers and students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). “This technological adventure is fascinating, as we’re confronted with extremely challenging physical laws. That’s why our international team of nearly
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