Cablemaker JDR Cable Systems, industrial electricalspecialist High Voltage Partial Discharge (HVPD), and floating wind turbinedeveloper Principle Power will share the pot.

The funds were awarded as the first tranche in the latestround of the Offshore Wind Component Technologies Development and Demonstration (OWCTDD) scheme, run by the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and TechnologyStrategy Board.

Cambridgeshire-basedJDR has been given over £1mto develop and build innovative high voltage alternating-current cables, while Manchester-based HVPD was granted £545,500 to develop an integratedoffshore high-voltage network management system (OHVMS) for wind farms.

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