shore wind power technologies. foundation will be installed in water The three projects selected today are more than 1,000 ft. deep, demonstrat-aimed at deploying offshore wind in- ing an innovative solution for deep wa-stallations in U.S. waters by 2017: ter wind turbine projects and lowering • Fishermen’s Energy will install ? ve costs by simplifying installation and 5-MW direct-drive wind turbines ap- eliminating the need for highly special-proximately three miles off the coast ized ships. of Atlantic City, NJ. This project will • Dominion Virginia Power will in-AAE-1 Cable System use a U.S.-developed twisted jacket stall two 6-MW direct-drive wind tur-Comes into Forcefoundation that is designed to be sim- bines 26 miles off the coast of Virginia The AAE-1 Consortium, owners of pler and less expensive to manufacture Beach, using a U.S.-designed twisted the Asia-Africa-Europe-1 submarine and install. Fishermen’s project will act jacket foundation. Dominion’s project cable spanning approximately 25,000 as a laboratory for researchers to learn will demonstrate installation, operation km connecting Asia, Middle East, Af-about offshore wind and investigate in- and maintenance methods for wind tur-rica and Europe; and TE SubCom, a teractions between turbines. bines located far from shore. Addition-TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an • Principle Power will install ? ve ally, the Dominion project will install industry pioneer in undersea commu-6-MW direct-drive wind turbines ap- and test a hurricane-resilient design nications technology, announced that proximately 18 miles off the coast of to ensure that offshore wind facilities the contract for the majority of seg-Coos Bay, Oregon. The U.S.-developed placed in hurricane-prone U.S. waters ments of the AAE-1 system has come WindFloat semi-submersible ? oating are reliable, safe, and cost-effective.into force. AAE-1 will link Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe with low latency, high capacity transmis-sion. Each trunk ? ber-pair in AAE-1 Meridian Adds Two Saab Seaeye ROVs segments supplied by TE SubCom Meridian Ocean Services added two pand the company’s range of inspection has a cross-sectional capacity of min-Saab Seaeye Lynx ROVs to its Falcon roles in deeper platform work, around imum 80 x 100Gbps and each branch ? eet to undertake a wider range of deep- buoys, arti? cial reefs and for cleaning is implemented with optical add/drop er inspection tasks at short notice. The and diver support. He said the Falcons multiplexing (OADM) nodes con-company has already won a niche in the are already deployed on a range of these taining TE SubCom’s industry lead-market for undertaking fast response tasks, which include monitoring ? sh ing OADM wavelength re-use tech-assignments in the offshore ? elds of populations around arti? cial reefs cre-nology. When completed, the AAE-1 America, Trinidad and Mexico. ated by rigs. Here the Falcons ? lm and system will connect landings in Hong Nat Spencer, Meridian’s Principal and record the effect on local ? sh when in-Kong SAR, (China), Vietnam, Cam-Director of Business Development, ex- vasive species are introduced that follow bodia, Kuala Kurau (Malaysia), Sa-plains that the Lynx, with its TMS and rigs when moved from one location to tun (Thailand), Mumbai (India), Ka-enhanced operating features, will ex- another.rachi (Pakistan), Al Bustan (Oman), Fujairah (UAE), Doha (Qatar), Aden (Yemen), Djibouti, Jeddah (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Zafarana and Abu Talat (Egypt), Chania (Greece), Mar-seille (France), plus other landings under development. AAE-1 will deploy 100Gbps tech-nology with wavelength add/drop branching units along the lowest la-tency route with design capacity of over 40 terabits. AAE-1 is one of the largest cable systems launched and will stimulate an exponential busi-ness growth in participating countries by providing robust, reliable and low-est latency connectivity. www.seadiscovery.comMarine Technology Reporter 57MTR #4 (50-64).indd 57 MTR #4 (50-64).indd 57 5/12/2014 10:24:14 AM5/12/2014 10:24:14 AM