We have been commissioned by J-Power Systems Corporation to provide weather downtime information for the installation of a subsea HVDC interconnector cable system between UK and Belgium.

J-Power Systems Corporation (JPS), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., has been awarded a contract to supply a subsea high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector cable system between UK and Belgium.

The contract was awarded by NEMO Link Limited, a joint venture between National Grid Interconnector Holdings Limited, a subsidiary company of the UK’s National Grid Plc, and the Belgian Elia group.

The cable system consists of a 130-km subsea cable route and an 11.5-km land cable route. The cable will be connected to HVDC converter stations in both Kent and Zeebrugge.

To properly plan the installation and associated works for any subsea cable, an understanding of metocean conditions along the cable route and landfall sites is needed.

We have been commissioned by JPS to provide weather downtime information. To undertake the weather downtime analysis, we will use a combination of data from our in-house SEASTATES wind and wave hindcast model, our UK Continental Shelf hydrodynamic model and high-resolution wave and hydrodynamic modelling of the near-shore areas of cable landfall sites.

To learn more about calculating weather downtime, download our White Paper, call +44 (0)23 8071 1879 or visit our microsite for a free trial of our 24/7 weather downtime calculator.