Operations & Assets
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| 16TH - 22ND OCTOBER 2015 | UTILITY WEEK
High viz
Four subsea cables have been laid
to service the MeyGen tidal energy
project. Each cable is protected by
a borehole about 0.5km long, which
runs from the foreshore to the Inner
Sound of the Pentland Firth and down
to the seabed. From the boreholes,
the cables run along the seabed to the
sites of the four 1.5MW tidal turbines,
which will be deployed next year.
Cable reels were loaded on to the
Siem Daya 1 in Hartlepool and trans-
ported to Caithness. Some 11km of
cable was laid. The principal contrac-
Making the
right connections
