Energy Cables

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Energy Cables

File:Layer Energy Cables.png
Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Cables and pipelines

Description

Electricity or Energy Cables are essentially submarine power cables. Such a cable is a major transmission cable for carrying electric power below the surface of the water. The purpose of submarine power cables is the transport of electric current at high voltage. The electric core is a concentric assembly of inner conductor, electric insulation and protective layers. Modern three-core cables (e.g. for the connection of offshore wind turbines) often carry optical fibers for data transmission or temperature measurement, in addition to the electrical conductors.

MSP Challenge

Electricity Cables is a static data layer. They are point-by-point lines that you can draw in, edit or remove when making a plan.

Electricity Cables create the following pressures on the ecosystem:

• Artificial substrate
• Noise during construction
• Bottom disturbance during construction

Electricity Cables disallow all three fishing fleets (bottom trawl, drift and fixed nets, industrial and pelagic trawl).

Go back to cables and pipelines.

Types

• 25MW
• 50MW
• 80MW
• 150MW
• 300MW
• 460MW

Metadata

Data Source

Rijkswaterstaat data drawn by hand to incorporate in a previous version of the MSP Challenge, combined with more up-to-date geographical information from Rijkswaterstaat as well.

Original Title

Not available.

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Not available, data layer implemented in February 2018.

Methodology

Based on the energy cables data combined from the sources mentioned above and the data regarding wind farms in operation, a model for the renewable energy scenario in 2016 was created. Only the cables that would be needed to bring the energy from the wind farms to shore are taken into account in the plafform as energy cables. Some geometries might have been simplified for optimization of the platform's performance.

Types

• 25MW
• 50MW
• 80MW
• 150MW
• 300MW
• 460MW
• 10GW Corridor

Metadata

Data Source

Based on the HELCOM HOLAS II Dataset: Cables (2018) data layer.

Original Title

Cables

Description

"The dataset was created in order to update the information regarding underwater cables in the Baltic Sea Region for the HELCOM Assessments. Data was collected by the HELCOM Secretariat during 2015 and 2016. The dataset contains information on submarine cables in the Baltic Sea. The dataset is based on available public sources on cables and due to variety of data sources (national and international), should be taken as general data based on best available public data with variable resolution over the different region in the Baltic. For Danish areas, the data represents constructions on Danish territorial waters, authorized facilities and activities from 2015. Depending on area, more accurate spatial data might exist, but data is unavailable for public use. National data submissions from Latvia and Russia were not available.

For 2018 version of dataset, cables that have only approximate location were removed from the dataset, as the spatial accuracy of these objects is not sufficient for the scale of the index.

Attribute specification and units:

• NAME
• COUNTRY
• CAPACITY (MW)
• STATUS (Operational, Under Construction, Application Submitted, Planned, Unknown)
• SOURCE"

Description retrieved from HELCOM's metadata page for this resource (2021-07-19).

Creation Date

2018-01-15

Methodology

Based on the "Cables" and the "Wind farms" layers a model for the renewable energy scenario in 2016 was created. Only the cables that would be needed to bring the energy from the wind farms to shore are taken into account in the plafform as energy cables. Some geometries might have been simplified for optimization of the platform's performance.

Western Baltic Sea

The Cables & Pipelines layer in the Western Baltic Sea Edition remains consistent with that featured in the Baltic Sea edition.

Types

• 150MW

Metadata

Not applicable. This data layer is only for planning purposes.

Types

• 25MW
• 50MW
• 80MW
• 150MW
• 300MW
• 460MW

Metadata

Not applicable. This data layer is only for planning purposes.

There is no information available about existing electricity cables in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. This layer is only included for planning purposes.

Types

• 25MW
• 50MW
• 80MW
• 150MW
• 300MW
• 460MW

Metadata

Not applicable. This data layer is only for planning purposes.