HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 14.May.2025, Words: 292) — Global Underwater Hub (GUH), which represents the UK’s £9bn subsea industry, backed plans for a high voltage deep sea cable production facility at the Port of Tyne.
GUH welcomes the investment in the manufacturing of underwater cables which are crucial to delivering the UK’s clean offshore power ambition and global net zero targets.
For GUH, a trade and industry development body for the UK’s underwater sectors, the facility would take the UK 1 step closer to becoming a center of excellence for subsea cables that transmit electricity from offshore wind farms to the grid, GUH said on 14 May 2025 in an official statement.
“Globally, over $800bn of investment in offshore wind farms is anticipated by 2030 and, for the world to hit net-zero emissions by 2050, the generating capacity from offshore wind must increase by a staggering 1,120 GW. Closer to home, the UK government has set ambitious targets of 50GW of installed capacity by 2030,” GUH chief executive Neil Gordon said in the statement.
The proposed cable manufacturing facility not only represents a major opportunity for the UK but also the North-east of England, Gordon said owing to an already established and globally recognized manufacturing base.
“This scale of expansion, in both fixed and floating offshore wind, can only be achieved by manufacturing, installing and maintaining hundreds of thousands of kilometers of reliable underwater cables. Furthermore, as floating offshore wind, which requires even more complex dynamic cables, becomes an increasing percentage of the overall installed base, we need to accelerate the build out of our capacity and capability in subsea cable manufacture, testing, installation and operation,” Gordon said.
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