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With the first steel cut, TenneT and the joint venture Equans–Iemants have marked the start of steel production for the topside Hollandse Kust (west Beta).

Belgium: Omexom Renewable Energies Offshore has been awarded a contract for maintenance of the offshore substation at the Norther offshore wind farm in Belgium.

Croatia, Zagreb: Končar-Power Transformers Ltd., a joint venture of Siemens Energy and Končar-Electrical Industry PLC., has shipped a transformer to Belgium.

Belgium, Brussels: Despite the economic and supply chain impacts of COVID-19, the global wind energy industry continues to power ahead and reach new records.

DEME Offshore has won a contract to transport and install equipment for two substations for the Hollandse Kust offshore wind farms.

Ergon International Inc. has expanded their storage capacity in Antwerp, Belgium, with the addition of three new storage tanks.

Belgian grid operator Elia and its German counterpart 50Hertz have issued a tender for transformers and related equipment for offshore wind substations.

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A major milestone in the construction of Innogy’s Triton Knoll offshore wind farm is on the horizon as the 2nd offshore substation heads across the North Sea.

The two substations for the 487 MW Seamade offshore wind farm were successfully installed in the Belgian North Sea in “record time”, according to Scaldis.

Belgium: The second SeaMade offshore substation topside has been installed in the Seastar concession area in the Belgian North Sea.

The first offshore substation for the 487MW SeaMade wind project has left the construction yard in Hoboken for its final destination in the Belgian North Sea.

Ostend, Belgium: Smulders has loaded out the offshore substation destined for the Mermaid offshore wind project in Belgium.

Belgium: The enterprise court declared CG Power Systems, the former Pauwels Trafo transformers company, bankrupt. Hundreds of workers lost their jobs.

Commercial Court in Mechelen, Belgium, has appointed 2 interim directors on the board of subsidiaries CG Holdings Belgium NV and CG Power Systems Belgium NV

Belgium: The first offshore substation transition piece and J-tube cage for the 487 MW Seamade offshore wind farm off Belgium are being transported to the Sif terminal in Rotterdam in the Netherlands ahead of installation.

The high voltage offshore substation for Parkwind’s Northwester 2 offshore wind farm has arrived at the Port of Oostende.

Royal Smit Transformers has used Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro vessels) to ship five transformers from Belgium to the USA.

Belgium, Brussels: As the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union in a national referendum, European Steel Association warns that Brexit might represent another blow to the UK steel industry, its value chains and the wider economy, and have far reaching effects on the European steel sector.

Belgium, Brussels: China and Serbia signed the agreement over the sale of Serbia’s largest steel producer, Zelezara Smederevo, to Hebei Iron & Steel.

Belgium, Brussels: The European Parliament last week voted through a Resolution on Market Economy Status (MES) for China, highlighting its firm reservations on granting China MES.

Belgium, Brussels: Following the meeting of high-level representatives from governments around the world, along with representatives from the global steel industry, held in Brussels on 18 April, the governments of Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States issued a significant statement noting two relevant issues.

Belgium, Brussels: Representatives from around 30 countries including China, Japan, Germany, India, the U.K. and the U.S. met with World Trade Organization, World Steel Association, and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) representatives in Brussels to seek possible solutions to the huge overcapacity that fuels the steel crisis.

Elia, the power transmission system operator in Belgium, has selected a permanent on-line partial discharge (PD) cable monitoring system from OMICRON for its Stevin project. This project is a major undertaking by Elia to reinforce the high-voltage (HV) power grid in Belgium’s Flanders region. Installation of the OMICRON cable monitoring system will start in the spring of 2016.