Cablemaker
JDR
Cable
Systems,
industrial
electrical
specialist
High
Voltage
Partial
Discharge
(HVPD),
and
floating
wind
turbine
developer
Principle
Power
will
share
the
pot.
The
funds
were
awarded
as
the
first
tranche
in
the
latest
round
of
the
Offshore
Wind
Component
Technologies
Development
and
Demonstration
(OWCTDD)
scheme,
run
by
the
UK’s
Department
of
Energy
and
Climate
Change
(DECC)
and
Technology
Strategy
Board.
Cambridgeshire-based
JDR
has
been
given
over
£1m
to
develop
and
build
innovative
high
voltage
alternating-current
cables,
while
Manchester-based
HVPD
was
granted
£545,500
to
develop
an
integrated
offshore
high-voltage
network
management
system
(OHVMS)
for
wind
farms.
“The
project
will
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